Vik Muniz

I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?

Brazilian Artist

Boris Yeltsin

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Russian Statesman

Robert Winston

I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's very important that if you have those sorts of backgrounds you don't impose them on other people as a clinician, of course.

British Scientist

Sally Field

I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

American Actress

Robert Jay Lifton

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.

American Psychologist

Dani Shapiro

I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn't raised to set the world on fire.

American Author

Eric Goode

I definitely have, on paper, an unorthodox career path. And from childhood onward, I was always fascinated by the outdoors and wildlife.

American Director

Tony Hawk

The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox.

American Athlete

Shamna Kasim

I hail from an orthodox family, but they encouraged me to learn various dance forms.

Indian Actress

I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.

American Musician

The term is used to describe widely accepted practices or beliefs in various fields, not just religion.

Usage in Beliefs

In some cultures, being 'orthodox' has a positive connotation, implying reliability and trustworthiness.

Cultural Context

'Orthodox' can imply resistance to change; it's important to not presume rigidity but to understand the context.

Conservative Implication

The term indicates associations with the Eastern Orthodox Church, a specific Christian denomination.

Church Associations

While related, 'orthodox' and 'Orthodoxy' can differ. 'Orthodoxy' refers more exclusively to certain religious beliefs.

Different from Orthodoxy

'Orthodox' with a capital 'O' refers to the Eastern Orthodox Church, without the capital it's a general term for traditional beliefs.

Capitalization Matters

'Orthodox' in politics means aligning with traditional views and methods rather than new ones.

Political Traditionalism

Being 'orthodox' in one's views doesn't necessarily mean being strict; the context defines the intensity.

Not Always Strict

 and which is rapidly growing and is going to kill her shortly. After she had surgery to remove the tumor, her parents dressed her in this beautiful green velvet dress, a pink ribbon in her hair, and they wanted the painting to be shown around the world, despite the fact that they were orthodox Muslims

Iain Hutchison: Saving...

 which is data-rich but application-poor, we should also continue thinking about unorthodox artificial intelligence architectures, which can accept small amounts of data and solve some of the most important problems facing us today, especially in health care. Thank you very much.

How AI is making it...

 The way that we've been able to do that is to get past those defensive shells and really see the soft inside of unbelief and belief and try to respect each other while still holding boundaries clear. The other thing that the secular left and the atheists and the orthodox

How I'm Working for...

 or spooky action at a distance. He decided that quantum mechanics must be incomplete, a mere approximation of a deeper reality in which both particles have predetermined states that are hidden from us. Supporters of orthodox quantum theory lead by Niels Bohr

Einstein's brilliant...

 you know i wonder if people knew that if it would make a difference for this raphael has an unorthodox solution let's have a mexicans in one one side of the border writing stories and have people in the states in the other side of the world no

The Aztecs: From Empire...

 in fairness this is like a classic example of like somebody who was doing like commercials or whatever um or somebody on the marketing team was like yeah do you know that greek orthodox liturgy axion why don't we use the axion esteem

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein...

 that those workers need. We reminded them that low-wage workers make terrible taxpayers, and that when you raise the minimum wage for all businesses, all businesses benefit yet all can compete. Now the orthodox reaction, of course,

Beware, fellow...

 But that its force was limited and could lift no more than 10.3 meters of water. However, the idea of a vacuum existing at all was still considered controversial. And the excitement over Galileo's unorthodox theory,

The history of the...

 Like his narrator, Melville was a restless and curious spirit, who gained an unorthodox education working as a sailor on a series of grueling voyages around the world in his youth.

Why should you read...

 Orthodox Jewish newspaper based in Brooklyn Hillary's completely gone the paper apologized but said it never runs photos of women they might be sexually