Notion Quotes - Page 38

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

  Mark Sanford

  Want, Sin

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• The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective - the race - is the source of his identity and value. ... The notion of 'diversity' entails exactly the same premises as racism - that one's ideas are determined by one's race and that the source of an individual's identity is his ethnic heritage.

  Peter Schwartz

  Ideas, Race, Diversity

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• One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.

  Matthew Reilly

  Book, Writing, Careers

  Matthew Reilly (2015). “The Great Zoo of China”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

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• The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.

  Joel Salatin

  Integrity, Processed Food, Expensive

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• I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world that you are perceiving, and I thought that feedback loop was pretty amazing.

  Christopher Nolan

  Dream, World, Remember

  Christopher Nolan, Jonah Nolan (2010). “Inception: The Shooting Script”, p.8, Insight Editions

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• The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a great deal more than they read the Bible. They see us; they only hear about Jesus Christ.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, People, World

  Alexander Maclaren (1910). “The Epistles General of I and II Peter and I John”

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• Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Racism, Political

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.148, Penguin

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• True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving, Charity, Giver

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• No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a notion of its craftsman-player, to recur to him in thought though ignorant of him by sight. In this way the creative power, which moves and safeguards its objects, is clear to us, though it be not grasped by the understanding. Anyone who refuses to progress this far in following instinctive proofs must be wanting in judgment. But still, whatever we imagined or figured to ourselves or reason delineated is not the reality of God.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Moving, Player

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• All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sports, Dog, Travel

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• Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.

  Roxane Gay

  Inspiring, Strong, Fighting

  "Roxane Gay: the bad feminist manifesto" by Roxane Gay, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2014.

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• I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.

  J. L. Mackie

  Self, Atheism, Chance

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• The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.

  Barack Obama

  Information, Flow, Obsolete

  Barack Obama's address to the United Nations General Assembly, www.washingtonpost.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Despite the obvious emphasis of Scripture (in regard to suffering), we are bombarded by suggestions that the 'successful' Christian living takes place in the realm of constant victory, health, wholeness, and financial prosperity. In response to this we are not to pretend that suffering doesn’t exist or that it might be instantly cured. Such notions are the product of empty heads and closed Bibles.

  Alistair Begg

  Christian, Successful, Bombarded By

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• For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if the mainstream is not a genre, then it must necessarily embrace all kinds of writing: romance, adventure, horror, thriller, crime, and, yes, science fiction.

  James Patrick Kelly

  Writing, Adventure, Romance

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• An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Mastery, Genius, Information

  Kenneth Goldsmith (2011). “Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age”, p.1, Columbia University Press

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• I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

  Melissa Leo

  Thinking, Acting, Way

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• The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.

  Anna Wintour

  Taken, Order, America

  "Ashley Tisdale beats Ashlee Simpson by a nose", www.today.com. January 21, 2008.

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• Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Lonely, Falling In Love, Love Is

  "These things I know" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2005.

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• Siddharth accepts me in the way I am. In the first few months of marriage I got bogged down by the
  notion that I had to juggle between handling home duties and starting work on a new film. He explained
  I needn't be a superwoman. He understands that if he could go out to work and end up neglecting things
  at home, so could I.

  Vidya Balan

  Home, Firsts, Way

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• The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person distinct from everyone else. The notion of a static self is the primary obstruction to the realization of our unique potential as an individual being. By dissolving this fiction through a centered vision of the transiency, ambiguity, and contingency of experience, we are freed to create ourself anew.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Independent, Unique, Self

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• Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. That seems so simple-except when we substitute for real practice some idea that we should be different or better than we are, or that our lives should be different from the way they are. When we substitute our ideas about what should be (such notions as "I should not be angry or confused or unwilling") for our life as it truly is, then we're off base and our practice is barren.

  Joko Beck

  Hurt, Confused, Real

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• The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Imagination, Primaries

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• Sometimes we get wrong notions, we think we have to be in a luxurious house, in a large city, with a new car in order to be happy. Happiness isn't there. Happiness isn't in a new car, it isn't in a new and luxurious apartment. Happiness isn't in banks and stocks. Happiness is where you make it, it's up to you. It comes from within, it doesn't come from things.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Happiness, Thinking, Order

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

  W. A. Criswell

  Believe, Imagination, Religion

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