Notion Quotes - Page 37

• You obtain God only when you get rid of the notion of separateness from God.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  God, Separateness

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• The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is used depend on the particular social and cultural setting.

  Jerome Bruner

  Way, Becoming, Literacy

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• Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that every step of progress is measured by how far we have altered these. Nothing short of a recovery of the ancient virtue of pietas can absolve man from this sin.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Recovery, Men, Progress

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.171, University of Chicago Press

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• I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Motivation, Struggle

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• The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all, historical societies. In having lost this function, modern man has also lost the best part of his nature, which he obliviously passes on to the next generation of dreamers.

  Neel Burton

  Dream, Men, Historical

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• When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a film that bypasses the brain and aims straight for the heart . . . should automatically be heaped with scorn. I think it is symptomatic of a sad and dangerous impoverishment of spirit.

  Bill Richardson

  Heart, Thinking, Brain

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• Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Events, Substance, Matter

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• I don't want the horse to get trained, because training the horse is absolutely finite. But if you get the horse to where he operates as if to be your legs, an extension of you, you've far-exceeded that whole training notion.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Training, Legs

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• The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

  Dennis Prager

  Behavior, Humans, Left

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• So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they employ - than to what they mean. This notion of dialogue as a pure expression of character that...transcends the specifics of time and place may be partly why the conversations in the works of writers such as Austen and Bronte often sound fresh and astonishingly contemporary.

  Francine Prose

  Character, Mean, Expression

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• All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Simple, People

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “On Liberty and Utilitarianism”, p.234, Bantam Classics

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• The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is an excuse for failure, violent behavior, or indulgence in drugs.

  Roland Merullo

  Success, Educational, College

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

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Teaching, People

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). “Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers”, p.21, Penguin

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• Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.

  John Tillotson

  Hope, Men, Sick

  John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.663

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• In the eighties, I was fortunate to be one of the young art directors that Jerry Roach, creative director at JWT New York, took under his wing. He taught me how to use typography more visually, to push against design norms and not to rely on preconceived notions of what something should look like. I learned that nuance is everything and to agonize over the details. I have Jerry to thank for driving plenty of people crazy over the years!

  John Butler

  Art, New York, Crazy

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• The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.

  Tara Brach

  Spiritual, Self, Trying

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• I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

  Barack Obama

  Success, President, Titles

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• We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Mater becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth comes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Book, Divine Feminine, Forever

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• Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Our World, Term

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• If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged “good” can justify it-there can be no peace within a nation and no peace among nations.

  Ayn Rand

  War, Men, Long

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.525, Penguin

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• Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Animal, Demonstration, Cruelty

  "Q&A With Actor and Activist Ian Somerhalder ( Lost, The Vampire Diaries ) on Social Change and Animal Rights". Quora Interveiw, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2013.

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• I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

  Tom Peters

  Real, Creativity, School

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• Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.

  Greg Child

  Struggle, Climbing, Feet

  Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.52, The Mountaineers Books

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• There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

  Harold S. Kushner

  People, Holiness, Share

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• Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want.

  Mark Sanford

  Want, Sin

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