Quotes and Sayings About Notion
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The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.
-- Abraham KuyperSource : "Wisdom and Wonder: Common Grace in Science and Art".
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Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.
-- Allan KaprowSource : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.195, Univ of California Press
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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
-- Anthony MinghellaSource : "Down from Cold Mountain". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2003.
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The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident
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It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.
-- Carlton CuseSource : "Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof Talk Lost". Interview, movieweb.com. April 21, 2008.
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My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
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Do you have any notion of how ***** crazy you are?
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But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?
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Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.
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Generally there is Stigler's law of Eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.
-- Dennis LindleySource : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Prologue, p. 15), 2006.
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I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.
-- Donald Hall -
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
-- Emily BronteSource : Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com
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I've never been one of those people, who subscribe to this notion that the book is dead.
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C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.
-- Grady BoochSource : Grady Booch (1991). “Object Oriented Design: With Applications”, Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
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I am against the notion of style in itself
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -
You obtain God only when you get rid of the notion of separateness from God.
-- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda -
When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.
-- Jackson Pollock -
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I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.
-- Jeff PerrySource : "Jeff Perry on His 'Scandal' Colleagues: 'We Have the Temperament of an 11-Year-Old Girl Scout Sleepover'". Interview with Andrea Cuttler, www.vanityfair.com. October 3, 2013.
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The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.
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I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.
-- John ThuneSource : "Ad ban plan at an impasse in South Dakota Senate race" by Robert Yoon, www.cnn.com. March 7, 2002.
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We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
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Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions
-- Joseph Chilton Pearce -
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
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She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women.
-- Kate Chopin -
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When we let go of all our notions about things, everything becomes really true.
-- Kosho UchiyamaSource : Kōshō Uchiyama (1993). “Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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I’m suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read.
-- Kristin Cashore