Sense Quotes
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You couple a sense of entrepreneurship with an extremely intelligent, technically capable people who understand markets, and that's what you see happening in India. India has a leg up on China.
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My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.
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Freud's sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and he combines the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.
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Nothing in my background has anything to do with films. In that sense, I am a complete outsider.
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The one thing in the world of value is the active soul. And I think that soul doesn't necessarily die after we're dead and maybe there's a sense of sometimes we know more than we think we know about our lives and our demise.
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She wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.
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Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.
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Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Let me expand a bit. I sense that you may feel that I am free of problems. Let me assure you that I have the same anxieties and insecurities as anyone in this auditorium - maybe more.
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I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was – you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'
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I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.
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I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.
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The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.
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For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
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In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.
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In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.
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The Tragically Hip, more so than any other band I've worked with, approach their work like a team. This might sound way too pat, but they're like a great hockey team: all five of them have their roles. They go at their shows like an athletic event; they're in it to win it, and they'll lay it out there on the proverbial ice in order to win and get the crowd on their side. You can't do that when you just throw a band together. There's a sixth sense there that makes it easy.
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There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices − that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue − the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.
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By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy.
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If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.
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Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.
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Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.
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There are many things that I find attractive about a woman. Foremost to me, of course, would be a sense of humor-but that doesn't come in a bottle.
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Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally – that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.
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In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.
