Notion Quotes

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

In our culture right now, I want to take on this notion of what a singular success means. We think success is one thing, but it's actually a spectrum of where our life takes us.

I struggled with that notion early in my career. 'I know this is funny but nobody is laughing.' This thought occurred for years.

The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.

In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life.

The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.

The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.

I'm sorry that some self-styled anarchists have picked up on the word spirit and have turned me into a theological ecologist, a notion which I think is crude beyond all belief.

There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.

There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.

To be or not to be is not the question. The question is whether you can transcend these notions.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

The way to "find" the perfect career is to give up the notion that you will ever find it, stumble across it, or that it will somehow magically find you, and to get to work designing it.

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there is no simple notion of its being "for" some function.

As for organs, traits, etc., being "for" something, the notion may be a useful shorthand, but shouldn't be taken too seriously, if only because of the ubiquitous phenomenon of exaptation.

Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.

Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.

In my view, we ought to replace the notion of analytic philosophy by that of synthetic philosophy.

I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.

I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much do anything you want. I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.

I guess I had this silly notion that things would be different now, since I was different.

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.

In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.

The more widely you can spread this notion of achieving ROI by preserving and improving ecosystems, the better.

That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.

Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire human race, other species might once again have a chance.

I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.

To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.

In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

Driving that train, high on cocaine Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed Trouble ahead, trouble behind And you know that notion just crossed my mind

The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

Most of us make an effort to do and be the best we can be, which leads to a distinction we need to make between the notion of struggle and the notion of effort.

We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion.

It's "a 'disorder of "assumption"' - the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically.

How could Hillary clinton not come off as human! I mean, even Nurse Ratched was human. I don't think people are interested in 30 years of the past, and I don't get this notion of change-maker.

[Donald] Trump is going to look into the notion of prosecuting Hillary [Clinton]. CNN has a graphic up , "Trump: Some human activity linked to climate change."

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the window and it turns out to be a way that you never imagined.