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It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. -- Mark Rothko
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. -- Wilma Rudolph
The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me. -- Lewis Carroll
Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind. -- Immanuel Kant
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -- Mary Browne
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. -- Ben Stein
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style -- Clifford Geertz
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both. -- Carl Sagan
I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion. -- Ryan Phillippe
I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it. -- Ann Richards
Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve. -- Pope Francis
Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. -- Michael Leunig
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. -- William J. Brennan, Jr.
My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. -- Vladimir Putin
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. -- Warren Beatty
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. -- Iris Murdoch
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever. -- George Berkeley
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 Bronte
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. -- William James
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. -- Uta Hagen
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles. -- David Suzuki
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. -- Angela Carter
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
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 Thune
Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea. -- Woody Allen
I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way. -- Omar Sharif
I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow. -- Carol Moseley Braun
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals. -- Joyce Maynard
The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself. -- David Tudor
Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful. -- Martin Seligman
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. -- Marcus Aurelius
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house. -- William Graham Sumner
I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay. -- Marjane Satrapi
Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals. -- Marvin Harris
In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively. -- Ismail Haniyeh
The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content. -- Stephen Wolfram
There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous. -- Edward de Bono
The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible. -- Christopher Monckton
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware. -- Tim Wise
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out. -- Charlie Pierce
The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences pain - physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it 'weariness of life.' -- Miriam Toews
Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will? -- David Augsburger
The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that you'll have little in the future. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it. -- Paul Theroux
I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others. -- Jeb Bush
Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand. -- George Formby
I've always been a big PlayStation fan. Even when the Xbox first came out, I stuck with the PlayStation. I think it's because when the Xbox first came out, the controller was so different that you just automatically assumed that it was harder to play, and I always just stuck with that notion. -- Reggie Bush
I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food. -- Nicholas Stern
When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've done so in the proper fashion. -- Corey Feldman
Expand your notion of what adversity is. -- Robert Greene
Long-haired Chihuahuas have no notion they are bite-sized. -- Rosemary Clement-Moore
I think that notion of leadership is bankrupt. -- Ronald A. Heifetz
Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me. -- Allan Kaprow
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I am against the notion of style in itself -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars. -- Jim Leach
The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings -- Cheris Kramarae
All fear is but the notion that God's love ends. -- Ann Voskamp
I am changing the notion that actresses can't have happy marriages -- Mercy Johnson
The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous. -- Terence McKenna
The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that -- Thomas Sowell
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion. -- Leon Kass
The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident -- Austin Farrer
Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are? -- Cormac McCarthy
Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic. -- Noam Chomsky
Playboy was founded on the notion that nice girls like sex too. -- Hugh Hefner
What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good. -- Susan George
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be -- Curtis W. Fentress
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time. -- Madame de Stael
The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete. -- Barack Obama
The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash. -- Trey Gowdy
The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality. -- James Wolfensohn
Don't get bogged down by the notion of limits. There aren't any. -- Sunita Williams
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. -- Vance Packard
Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one. -- Nicholas Negroponte
School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged. -- John Taylor Gatto
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion ... -- Joan Didion
The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture. -- Steven T. Katz
Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one. -- A. J. Jacobs
That notion that we're in the post-racism, post-sexism world is so not true. -- Margaret Cho
I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective. -- Peter Jennings
This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?" -- Michel de Montaigne
I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society -- Tony Abbott
When you're a black superhero you can't erase the notion that you're black. -- Cheo Hodari Coker
Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want. -- Mark Sanford
"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable." -- Alexander Dewdney
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies. -- Anthony Minghella
It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion. -- Sun Ra
I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic. -- Noah Baumbach
I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way. -- Melissa Leo
I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion. -- Jeff Perry
We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be. -- John C. Maxwell
To behave "humanely" it is perfectly possible to do without the notion of "humanity." -- Talal Asad
The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian. -- Thomas Sowell
I get inspired by the notion of transforming people into extraordinary versions of themselves. -- Elan Lee
When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious. -- James Cook
The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate. -- Anna Wintour
I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me. -- Billy Corgan
Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself. -- William Jones
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion. -- Jonathan Swift
There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark. -- Freida Pinto
I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world. -- Peter Zumthor
The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh. -- H. L. Mencken
That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband. -- Samuel Richardson
Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs. -- Joseph Addison
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible. -- Alan Dundes
Believing is seeing. It's much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing. -- Terrence E. Deal
The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. -- Elliott Abrams
Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people. -- Michael Manley
I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience. -- Barbara Kingsolver
It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere. -- Joan Miro
The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it. -- Jim Gaffigan
It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it. -- James Hillman
According to Mr. Obama, exceptionalism is so yesterday, an uncool, antiquated and ultimately destructive notion. -- Monica Crowley

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