Notion Quotes
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The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian.
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The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.
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It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.
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It's not good enough to just keep producing technology with no notion of whether it's going to be useful. You have to create stuff that people really want, rather than create stuff just because you can.
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People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.
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The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.
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Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
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One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.
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What notion did you have of Canada when you came?" Mistry smile delicately, the face behind the trimmed beard and glasses like that of a student. "I thought it would complete me.
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
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The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.
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The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.
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I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.
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Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.
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It is the thing that keeps me up at night - the notion that you have individuals in the United States who are looking at computer screens and who are becoming radicalized.
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Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.
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When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything.
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Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.
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The notion that obedience dehumanizes those who render it is a popular cry of the philosophers of radical individualism, such as Thoreau, who are so important to America's myth of itself.
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This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
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My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands of historians and experts.
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My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
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I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.
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It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.
