Notion Quotes - Page 22

• Most people turn things like elections into a fetish and think it's the only way to go: if we just keep giving people the vote, that'll solve all our problems. In the end, that's just a silly, infantile notion.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Silly, Thinking, People

  "'The Buddah' & the End of Human Suffering/Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'

  Cate Blanchett

  Fate, Thinking, Destiny

  "Cate Blanchett Talks Red Carpet Beauty and Dates With Destiny". Interview with Crystal Meers, www.elle.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.

  Steve Erickson

  Believe, Secret, Imagine

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• The Big Bang has gone away, but as far as Super String, that is suspicious for me. It all starts out with the notion of Big Bang, which if it were true, starts out with incredibly high temperatures. So they think [we] need to get these high temperatures for this broken symmetry; all this broken symmetry reunited, and we do not have enough energy in the whole galaxy to get to those temperatures, to prove their point. To me, that is the single flaw in Super String theory.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Thinking, Gone Away, Broken

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• In my view, we ought to replace the notion of analytic philosophy by that of synthetic philosophy.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophy, Views, Synthetic

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is a notion that you have to be synchronized with both heaven and earth.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Discipline

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• Part of the notion in Shambhala teachings is that everybody can live their lives so they get weaker and more stressed out as they go along, or so they get more fortitude and strength.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Teaching, Stressed, Fortitude

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• I would say courage first; then wisdom, which is a sense of knowledge and confidence; and also the wish and desire to uplift. The underlying notion is "How do I help?" That attitude really is a spiritual journey and a path.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Attitude

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Our Actions, Momentum, Coming Out

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• I have successfully avoided being stereotyped into a specific category. I've worked very hard at that, and I'm proud of not being easily lumped into anybody's preconceived notions or expectations.

  Amber Heard

  Expectations, Proud, Categories

  "20Q: Amber Heard". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. August 10, 2011.

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• The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses.

  Brian Pinkerton

  Self, Acting, Amplify

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jobs, Trying, Progress

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Everything in your life might be good, but there's still this notion that everything is not going to be okay, that there's more pain and suffering to come down the road.

  Steven Drozd

  Pain, Suffering, Might

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• From about the age of 15 or 16 I'd had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I'd done enough in college to satisfy myself that I had a knack for it - I wouldn't call it "talent" - though I wondered if I'd ever have the guts to actually commit to it.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, College, Age

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• A person deprived of beauty and pleasure puts me in mind of the Haitian notion of a zombie - a person disconnected from his or her soul, a person who works for others' profit but never his own, a person who mindlessly does the bidding of the boss and exists in an emotional and mental limbo.

  Ben Fountain

  Emotional, Boss, Soul

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• What better metaphor for the subliminal state than capitalism? This whole notion that you're trying to do good and make things good for the world, but at the same time the reality is that you have to eat other people to end up on top.

  Owen Pallett

  Reality, People, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The notion that you go to a public institution in order to learn private information about yourself is absurd. We used to understand that when students went to universities, they would become cosmopolitan. They were leaving their neighborhoods.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Order, Leaving, Information

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• For me, diversity is not a value. Diversity is what you find in Northern Ireland. Diversity is Beirut. Diversity is brother killing brother. Where diversity is shared - where I share with you my difference - that can be valuable. But the simple fact that we are unlike each other is a terrifying notion. I have often found myself in foreign settings where I became suddenly aware that I was not like the people around me. That, to me, is not a pleasant discovery.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Brother, Simple, Differences

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that writers should provide an example of how to live. Virginia Woolf ended her life by putting a rock in her sweater one day and walking into a lake. She is not a model of how I want to live my life. On the other hand, the bravery of her syntax, of her sentences, written during her deepest depression, is a kind of example for me. But I do not want to become Virginia Woolf. That is not why I read her.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Virginia, Hands, Sweaters

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I become an actress to do things that scare the sh*t out of me and I felt like I didn't stand a chance to get this part because people have preconceived notions about me, but if they gave me the part, I would do everything in my power to not screw it up.

  Lizzy Caplan

  People, Scare, Actresses

  "How Lizzy Caplan 'Master'ed Her Career". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 27, 2013.

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• The more widely you can spread this notion of achieving ROI by preserving and improving ecosystems, the better.

  Ramez Naam

  Ecosystems, Roi, Achieve

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Powerful, Wikipedia, Contribution

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 4, 2009.

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• You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

  Ron Suskind

  Broken, Work Out, Trying

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It's just kind of seemed like a funny way to explore action movies, I guess. I mean, I'm a big fan of them always. It's always people who are very equipped to deal with the situations that they're thrown in. So, the notion just seemed funny, because it's, like, basically stoners are kind of the last guys in the world who are equipped to deal with that. And the humor possibilities just seemed somewhat endless.

  Seth Rogen

  Mean, People, Guy

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• On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling them and making it sound like there is many more people playing, so the whole notion of, kind of, sampling applied to classical music is very intriguing to me because composers throughout history have borrowed motifs and quotes from one another.

  DJ Spooky

  Hands, Symphony, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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