Notion Quotes - page 32

I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media. (Peter L. Bergen)
I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying. View quote
Pierre Omidyar
For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are. View quote
Ricki Lake
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. View quote
Ricky Williams
I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids. View quote
Rob Morrow
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s. View quote
Robert Darnton
I've always been a big PlayStation fan. Even when the Xbox first came out, I stuck with the PlayStation. I think it's because when the Xbox first came out, the controller was so different that you just automatically assumed that it was harder to play, and I always just stuck with that notion. View quote
Reggie Bush
We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser. View quote
Sharon Salzberg
We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get. View quote
Stan Brakhage
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. View quote
Steve Tisch
Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago. (Steve Vai)
I tend not to spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. If you say, 'Oh, I did 'Hill Street Blues' or 'L.A. Law' and everything I do has to measure up to some preconceived notion of that,' it would paralyze you. View quote
Steven Bochco
I like the notion of making stuff up or letting your imagination go away with you. View quote
Stevie Jackson
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware. View quote
Tim Wise
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple up your pages and toss them away. On one side, the dustbin would fill up, and on the other side, pages would rise into a novel. View quote
Tom Rachman
I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that. View quote
Trenton Lee Stewart
The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash. View quote
Trey Gowdy
This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office. View quote
Ursula Burns
If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection. View quote
Scott Berkun
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? View quote
Valerie Martin
Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery. (Sharon Shinn)
I've always been interested in tht notion of what is authentic and how we define that and why our culture imposes certain emotions and emotional constraints onto experiences. View quote
Meghan Daum
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is "man-made", ergo artificial. But what one learns in chemistry is that Nature wrote all the rules of structuring; man does not invent chemical structuring rules; he only discovers the rules. All the chemist can do is find out what Nature permits, and any substances that are thus developed or discovered are inherently natural. It is very important to remember that. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
If we formulate the fundamental theory of nature in a timeless language, we have then the problem of recovering the familiar notion of time. View quote
Carlo Rovelli
I argue that the best strategy for understanding quantum gravity is to build a picture of the physical world where the notion of time plays no role at all. View quote
Carlo Rovelli