Notion Quotes

I wrote all the time, but the idea of doing it professionally seemed like pie in the sky. Who gets paid to write? I grew up in Pittsburgh, so it wasn't really a notion that a lot of people pursue.

We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.

Donald Trump disproved the notion that there is a direct dollar-for-dollar correlation between how much money you had in your traditional war chest and what your election outcome was going to be.

Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one.

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.

I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.

In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else.

I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.

Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones.

Personally, I don't tend to go into casting sessions. I try not to have a preconceived notion in my head because it just reduces my options or ability to find someone cool.

The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game.

I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a notion in my mind and just follow it.

The Islamic world is obsessed with the notion of strong leaders. This is a mistake. We don't need powerful leaders, but rather unconventional, progressive thinkers with the courage to open our minds.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

I'm interested in how small the world really is, and this notion that what happens in one place affects someone else.

The notion that love is abroad in the world has shaped my life.

I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.

Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.

The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.

How, given the canine teeth and close-set eyes that declare the human animal to be a predator, had we come up with the notion that oat bran is more natural to eat than chicken?

One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that I seem to be fascinated as a writer with the notion that we already have all that we need.

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.

I think that notion of being a seeker, somebody who never felt totally fulfilled, but was always passionate about the search, that comes from the background, probably.

There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped.

It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets.

Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser.

When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything.

On the question of taking credit for what goes right and blame for what goes wrong - having led the Conservative party for four years, I have never heard of this notion before.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

We can take that as a notion that we don't know exactly what [Trump] is going to do, but we can't afford to take a position of waiting around to see.

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.

There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

They have their opinions, but we have the answers.

I don't put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.

The great idea is the one that is either saleable or is worthy of imitation.

My ideas will not be discussed, they will be executed.

Great ideas doesn't need approvals, they need application.

Beliefs are stronger than mere ideas, thoughts and notions, be careful about what you believe.

...definitely believe that, there's got to be a spark to a place...to make it feel like a home...

Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

Reality tastes like ashes

The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.

Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon.