Quotes About Suggestion

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

The idea of windows, that's so symbolic to me within labor. And I'm always opening windows during a birth. If someone's been in labor all night and they're exhausted and sort of over it, opening a window or drawing a curtain can change the game. And sometimes the doula is the first one to suggest it.

'Almost' is all about gradations and nuance and about suggestion and shades. Not quite a red wine, but not crimson, not purple either, or maroon; come to think of it, 'almost' Bordeaux.

My solo playing utilizes the deployment of suggestive psychic rhythms. I'll state these throughout a given piece and play thematic improvisations on top of that. I like to suggest that rhythmic movement without always playing it. I like to create openings that I can step into.

He didn't see dancer on there but, without asking, he suspected he knew what kind of dancer. Just the way she was dressed, decidedly not churchy, suggested way too much.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Hey, I know,' says Terry. 'Why don't

It was a fucking suggestion. Do you think my world turns on your happiness? Your success? Do what you please. Just make sure you're alive to wipe my ass when I'm an invalid.... the way I told it to Gary later, it was a kind of liberation. Go forth, Daddy Miner was saying, be your own disappointment. There's a whole wide world to fail in.

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

The house of fiction has many windows ... sometimes such a simple thing as suggesting to a student that perhaps realism instead of fantasy may be a more sympathetic genre, or humor instead of the opposite, or the novel rather than the short story--sometimes a simple suggestion like that can be the one that makes things click.

Such perfect incompleteness, suggestion and ambiguity are among the most valuable devices of the skilled poet, means by which the poem opens to let us in.

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty until found effective.

Cuando lo vi volver, alto y oscilante, las manos hundidas en los bolsillos de su gran abrigo abierto y con las solapas levantadas, entendí que había en él esa intensa sugestión de carácter que tienen siempre los portadores de una historia, como los portadores de un revólver. Pero no estoy haciendo una vana comparación literaria: él tenía una historia y guardaba un revólver.

Even if a person's nice &wise words are written all over the world, but if he has not made a lot of money out of it then even those in his circle neither seek nor accept his best & honest suggestion. And most of them even often neglect or reject his paddled correct,selfless viewpoint .People are so much selfish & self-centred a.k.a dullard.

History seems to suggest blatantly that a man gains the level of wisdom in proportion to the height & length of own freedom from the bondage of a woman.

Neither seek any advice on any most important matters of life nor work on any suggestion of a person who has either done job for any private organisation for demi-decade even if as head or/and satisfactorily married to keep his wife happy for over a decade because such guys are largely foolish husband/employees

But how do you get started when you've lost your skills? Is a sixty-five-year-old businessman just supposed to call another guy and suggest a playdate? Ridiculous! Actually . . . maybe not so ridiculous.

You just touch on things. You don't go round the room describing the furniture.

Fourth proposition. To divide the world into a 'real' and an 'apparent' world, whether in the manner of Christianity or in the manner of Kant (which is, after all, that of a cunning Christian –) is only a suggestion of décadence – a symptom of declining life.…

She was wearing a dark-red swimsuit consisting of two small triangles up above and a mere suggestion of something down below. If she took everything off, Dill thought, she would look a lot less naked.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.

the modern writer's aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.