Quotes About Suggestion

Amos was more conservative than I was about hunches, and he cor- rectly pointed out that appealing to suggestion did not help us understand anchoring, because we did not know how to explain suggestion.

In the school suggestion box, brought out at times, Sting put in a scrap of notepaper advising the authorities to ban the 'slipper', advising everyone to wrap rags around their feet.

If you're suggesting that I'm after his money-" "I know perfectly well which part of Bertrand you're after, Simmonds.

Teamwork: What did you do today to lend a hand to a colleague? Respect: What did you do today to acknowledge the work of one of your colleagues? Learning: What's one mistake you made in the last week, and what did you learn from it? Continuous improvement: What have you done in the past week to improve so that you're better this week than last? Customer focus: What is one change you made in the last week that came from a customer suggestion?

Neither can I." "What are you going to wear?" That was a good question. "I don't know." "I've got an idea. Remember that pink ruffled dress I got for my cousin's wedding?

To save our friends' nerves, I suggest we meet on a plane of brutal courtesy. It need not interfere with our mutual distrust." -Francis Crawford of Lymond

I have a suggestion in that case,' said Lymond. 'You two have the orgy, and I'll keep the drinker's headache.

How nice," said Lymond, "to have simple emotions. No trouble with principles; no independence of thought; no resistance to suggestion; no nonsense about adult behaviour when it comes to one's own amour propre.

What intelligent remedy, like jumping in the river, do you suggest if we find this man Lymond irreconcilably dreadful?

For a moment no one spoke. Then Lymond got to his feet. 'I have a better idea. You marry her,' he suggested.

And briefly and succinctly, he put Miss Marple's theory of the crime before the doctor, ending up with her final suggestion.

We established ourselves on the grassy knoll as Poirot had suggested,

I shall have to adopt a disguise,' said Luke with a sudden grin. 'What do you suggest? Artist? Hardly—I can't draw, let alone paint.' 'You could be a modern artist,' suggested Jimmy, 'Then that wouldn't matter.

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.

When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.

It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.

I thought we might practice serving tea this afternoon. I found a recipe for watercress and cheddar sandwiches," Mom said. "Don't those sound lovely?" "Uh, I guess." I was a burger girl. "What do you think, Mr. Wynter?" Mom asked. "Sounds great to me." He grinned at her. I had a feeling she could have suggested dirt mixed with autumn leaves and he'd have said it sounded great.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.

Tell ourselves we feel wonderful when we feel bad, the badness fades with every suggestion. Tell ourselves we feel terrible when we feel bad, we get worse every word. Suggestions intensify.

You wouldn't consider riding me, would you?' he asked politely. 'You've lovely manners, she purred. 'But of course.

We discovered that the scrupulously strict were correspondently keen to discern suggestions of sex where nobody else would think of looking for them.

And then she had suggested that instead of going to the barber, they go into the bedroom and do something so filthy that Will had experienced a few seconds of hysterical blindness.

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