Notion Quotes - Page 20

• If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus of mathematical doctrine, I should point to Continuity as contained in our notions of space, and say, it is this, it is this!

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Stars, Names, Ideas

  James Joseph Sylvester (1973). “1854-1973”

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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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• The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.

  Dennis Prager

  Christian, Love You, Mind

  "Dennis Prager: Americanism Is The Best Hope". Interview with Dave Gordon, www.breitbart.com. June 03, 2012.

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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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• Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

  George Orwell

  Latin, Greek

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you don't stick to your plan enough, and you're too seduced by whimsical notions and new ideas, you can kind of lose your train of thought and end up with something that doesn't have a solid through-line.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Train Of Thought, Ideas, Lines

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• I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.

  Lynne Tillman

  Writing, Thinking, May

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I like the notion of guiding, because I can offer advice through my own experiences, tastes and beliefs. But it's all in that individual's hands.

  Erol Alkan

  Hands, Advice, Taste

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Even when I wrote Basic myself the day before I burned it into a computer I wasn't making design changes. I didn't have a testing team. I did all the testing myself. And there was no project methodology or schedule that, there was the notion of coming to a close means testing a lot at the end and making very few changes.

  Bill Gates

  Team, Mean, Design

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• I love challenging the notion that, in order to be a tech founder, you have to be holed up in a dark room wearing a T-shirt and baggy jeans.

  Kevin Systrom

  Dark, Order, Jeans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When it comes to wheat, my main goal is to inform people, including farmers, that the prevailing notion that cutting fat and eating whole grains will make you healthy is not only wrong, it's destructive.

  William Davis

  Cutting, People, Goal

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the twain shall meet, in much the same way that Judeo-Christian theology presents its notion of the afterlife - there's a very clear and impermeable demarcation there.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Christian, Afterlife, Events

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is presumably solid and self-evident, with no negotiation of the gap between myself and the world, between this body and this space, which needs narration to close it.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Artist, Blow, Reality

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Giving Up, Difficulty

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Believe, Clinging

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Be content where you are! The sooner I let go of the notion that something could only be one way, the way I had planned it, without fail, I have always gotten more done and with far less discomfort.

  Michael Adam Hamilton

  Letting Go, Done, Way

  "Michael Adam Hamilton: Celebrating Life and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.

  Jasper Fforde

  Order, Dancing, Good Man

  "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

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• I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have to write about, because the act of writing is self-generating.

  Kate Christensen

  Writing, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that led people to survive and take stock and move on with some kind of notion of betterment.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Moving, Sacrifice, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to anyone, and because I'm a fairly private person, the notion doesn't appeal to me.

  Debra Dean

  Would Be, Biographies, Imagine

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.

  L. Todd Rose

  Strong, Crazy, Character

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The ways sexuality plays out in political economies is central. And Cambodia's political economy is organized around this notion of family. So lesbianism is actually perceived as being threatening to a degree that it would have not been, for example, under socialist East Germany. But it's one of the essential issues of women's freedom: Do you get to do want you want to do with your body? Not if you don't know what your body is for.

  Anne Elizabeth Moore

  East Germany, Play, Issues

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I did a lot of work with early 20th century attitudes, the kind of superficial notions and behavior that prompt people who don't know history very well to think that "people were different back then" - but beneath all that are characters who react in ways that we can all recognize, and will always be able to recognize.

  James Vance

  Attitude, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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