Quotes About Notion

But neither life, nor human history, turn out to support such a notion.

Long habit had accustomed the American people to the notion of a party in power, and of a President as its creature and organ, while the more vital fact, that the executive for the time being represents the abstract idea of government as a permanent principle superior to all party and all private interest, had gradually become unfamiliar. They

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

Reality is just a collective hunch.

Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive.

If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

I don't feel like I've ever subscribed to the stereotypical notion of success. I've always equated success with having integrity, conducting yourself with compassion and honesty, and following your heart despite whether or not you ever make any money at it.

The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped mattering in movies. In other words, the birth of the notion of the character-driven movie coincided with the birth of movies in which characters were incidental to the very activities in which they engaged.

As a storyteller, I've always been fascinated with the idea of recreating this notion of choices in fiction. My dream was to put the audience in the shoes of the main protagonists, let them make their own decisions, and by doing so, let them tell their own stories.

if X and Y are two topological spaces and if f : X ? Y is a function between them, then we simply define f to be continuous if f-1 (U) is open for every open set U ? Y. Remarkably, we have found a useful definition of continuity that does not rely on a notion of distance.

We now find ourselves very much concerned with something we call "post-truth," and we tend to think that its scorn of everyday facts and its construction of alternative realities is something new or postmodern. Yet there is little here that George Orwell did not capture seven decades ago in his notion of "doublethink.

Rather than defining facts or generating interpretations, we are seduced by the notion of hidden realities and dark conspiracies that explain everything.

Frank Ocean is super dope! He's like a ghost. He's, like, not really real. I didn't think he was real until I met him.

The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class.

that he has got a pippin of an idea

Attachment to the notion of a god outside you is a curse. You must overcome it. Rediscover your luminous Self and embrace it wholeheartedly.

An idea in your head is merely an idle notion. But an idea written down, that's the beginning of something! Stripped down to its briefs, a piece of writing is nothing more than a handful of ideas, put into words and arranged to do a job. We all get ideas—try not thinking in the shower. The trick is to write them down.