Quotes About Suggestion

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

A space was quickly cleared in the crowd, and a rope placed about his neck, when from somewhere came the suggestion, "Burn him!" It ran like an electric current. Have you ever witnessed the transformation of human beings into savage beasts? Nothing can be more terrible.

The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of which her beauty was a part.

What I am suggesting, after all, is no more than Major Batjuschin suggested to Captain Redl in 1902." This brought a smile from Rand. "You mean Captain Redl, the archtraitor?

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

Suggestibility is a very loose term. You may not be the sort of person who responds well to a hypnotist on stage, but you might find, for example, that a doctor administering a placebo to you is something you respond well to.

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

Far better to give your readers some hints and then allow them to fill in the blanks for themselves. This

Describing your action too precisely can be as condescending as describing your characters' emotions. Far better to give your readers some hints and then allow them to fill in the blanks for themselves. This

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auto-suggestion.

And flash him!" Annabeth's face reddened. "That came out wrong. But yeah, good idea.

There, Zoë suggested.By the Embarcadero Building. Good thinking, Chuck said. Me and Hank can blend in with the pigeons. We all looked at him. Kidding, he said. Sheesh, can't a statues have a sense of humor?

Even if no command to pray had existed our very weakness would have suggested it.

Yes, perhaps," Perrin answered. "Perhaps. It could all be suggestion. But in story after story that I've heard about séances, Ouija boards—all of that, Chris—they always seem to be pointing to the opening of a door of some sort.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

Don't presume you know what's best for him, Karin. I've been seeing to his needs for over a century." She glowered at the ceiling. "All I'm suggesting is that he doesn't need a modification for my sake. I think he's just fine the way he is." "You're wrong." You pompous machine.

have a problem with ageism, overt and especially covert. My feeling about a person's age is that it's a serving suggestion. It's up to you what you do with it: take it as offered, modify it, or ignore it altogether.

Why not keep her for a bit?" Of course Jack would suggest such a thing. The man who never thought of consequences. Keep Emmaline? Impossible.

Have you caught cold?' 'It would appear so.' 'You could give it to Margaret,' Ramses suggested. His uncle turned the tinted spectacles toward him and then, unexpectedly, bust into laughter. 'What a charming idea. Will you aid and abet me when I catch her in a close embrace and breathe heavily on her?

the very way Mrs. Arbuthnot parted her hair suggested a great calm that could only proceed from wisdom.