Notion Quotes - Page 29

• Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.

  Terence McKenna

  Religious, Memories, Thinking

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• It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase "girl power", which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends.

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Feminism, Phrases

  "Caitlin Moran: how to be a Renaissance woman" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2015.

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• Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Trying, Chance, Talent

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.130, Penguin

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• Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The arrogance of those who come later preens itself with the notion that the past is dead and gone. The modern mind can no longer think thought, only can locate it in time and space. The activity of thinking decays to the passivity of classifying.

  Russell Jacoby

  Past, Thinking, Space

  "Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing". Book by Russell Jacoby, 1975.

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• The idea itself, the notion of what the next Tron could be, is exciting enough that it would be worth going back to do it. Obviously we hinted some things at the end of Legacy, it's kind of there for people to see what that potential is. So we just want to make sure that we have a script that delivers on that promise on an epic scale."

  Joseph Kosinski

  Epic, Ideas, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The notion of making the television - the very thing that we allow into our living room and our kid's bedroom - something that's potentially dangerous, to me, is just so incredibly delicious that I can't tell you.

  Rockne S. O'Bannon

  Kids, Television, Rooms

  Source: collider.com

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• The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

  John Medina

  Fashion, Keys, Ideas

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.64, Pear Press

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• 'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Reality, Granted, Journalist

  "Bad press: a new play gives journalists a voice" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• The Feminine force of life is often too wise for the Masculine's need to know: The mysterious energy of the evolving cosmos is always superior to our temporary scientific notions about it. . .

  David Deida

  Wise, Energy, Needs

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• I let go of the notion that the Bible is a divine product. I learned that it is a human cultural product, the product of two ancient communities, biblical Israel and early Christianity. As such, it contained their understandings and affirmations, not statements coming directly or somewhat directly from God. . . . I realized that whatever "divine revelation" and the "inspiration of the Bible" meant (if they meant anything), they did not mean that the Bible was a divine product with divine authority.

  Marcus Borg

  Letting Go, Inspiration, Mean

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• My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.

  Tom Courtenay

  Drama, Men, Emotional

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I certainly think the antagonism came out of a mistaken notion amongst the Indian people that the Chinese aggressed on us, and they thought, Indian people

  Subramanian Swamy

  Thinking, People, Chinese

  "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age", lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. February 12, 1987.

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• We had people coming to our Foreign Relations Committee and saying, "Oh, we need to arm the allies of Al Qaida." They are still saying this. It is a crazy notion. This is the biggest debate we should be having is is regime change a good idea; has it been a good idea.

  Rand Paul

  Crazy, Ideas, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The notion that the campus has its hands tied if a woman is not willing to go to the police, if the woman is only willing to go so far as, "I just don't want to see him in my dorm anymore," is ridiculous. If that's as far as she's willing to go, then we need to accommodate that. And a university needs to be able to accommodate it.

  Claire McCaskill

  Hands, Police, Needs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Well, in the sense of the traditional notion of God, coming out of Christianity and Islam and the Abrahamic religions, I do not hold with that concept of a God or deity. In that concept, I'm agnostic. Okay, I don't know the answer, let's find the answer.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Islam, Answers, Deities

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.

  Gore Vidal

  Father, Daddy, Giving

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.82, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Needs, Halt

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.

  Bill Keller

  War, Simple, Israel

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• If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Mean, Matter

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.31, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and nations to sell. This is not an issue of which we might anticipate widespread skepticism. People will want to believe it, even if the evidence is meager to nil... compelling testimony ... provides that our personality, character, memory ... resides in the matter of the brain, it is easy not to focus on it, to find ways to evade the weight of the evidence.

  Carl Sagan

  Spiritual, Memories, Believe

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• Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

  Barney Frank

  Should Have, People, Today

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• We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.

  Bill Whittle

  Philosophy, War, Fighting

  "History". Post by Bill Whittle in blog ejectejecteject.com, March 29, 2003.

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• I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly, and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear concurrent with Apple's announcement.

  Gabe Newell

  Apples, People, Expectations

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.

  Truman Capote

  Notebook, Ideas, Imagination

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.30, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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