Quotes and Sayings About Suggestions
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My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.
-- Adelaide Crapsey -
I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times equal to the national defence...The facts, which from our own experience forbid a reliance of this kind, are too recent to permit us to be the dupes of such a suggestion.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.
-- Algernon Blackwood -
Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.
-- Alvin Toffler -
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
-- Andy Warhol -
I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions
-- Anita Hill -
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
-- Anthony Hecht -
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell -
Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered, always carefully crafted and almost always correct (which is to say we sometimes disagree). That much is apparent for all to see. What only her colleagues know is that her suggestions improve the opinions the rest of us write, and that she is a source of collegiality and good judgment in all our work.
-- Antonin Scalia -
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
-- Arthur Bloch -
Among all forms of mentation, verbal thinking is the most articulate, the most complex, and the most vulnerable to infectious diseases. It is liable to absorb whispered suggestions, and to incorporate them as hidden persuaders into the code.
-- Arthur Koestler -
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
I’m not too into the trends - I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules.
-- Bethany Mota -
There's more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
-- Bill Bailey -
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
-- Bjorn Lomborg -
Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.
-- Bob Woodward -
I have a bad habit of inserting my ideas into shots and things. I don't know, I don't hold back on suggesting things, but I don't have any connection to what actually happens, so I'll make a suggestion on something and then just let it go.
-- Bryan Cranston -
I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing...
-- C. S. Forester -
[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically.
-- Charles Francis Richter -
Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions.
-- Chen Shui-bian -
Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.
-- Chuck Close -
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
-- Chuck Jones -
I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.
-- Colonel Sanders -
I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.
-- Danny Wallace -
With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
-- David Benioff -
Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension, and even anger.
-- David Deutsch -
It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.
-- David Neeleman
