Notion Quotes

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.

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.

There's a powerful tendency to overcomplicate the whole notion of leadership.

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

I love dressing up, and I'm aware that people do say that it can take your attention away from the game. But I disagree with this notion!

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

Widespread personification of “society” is another verbal tactic that evades issues of individual responsibility. Such use of the term “society” is a more sophisticated version of the notion that “the devil made me do it.” Like much of the rest of the special vocabulary of the anointed, it is used as a magic word to make choice, behavior, and performance vanish into thin air.

Expand your notion of what adversity is.

Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...[and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.

Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.

Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.

There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.

I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.

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.

The idea is more important than the object.

As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.

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?

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.

I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody.