Quotes having the keyword Notion
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
by Alexis de Tocqueville (Scientist, French , born in 1805) keywords: among, become, differences, disappear, feeble, give, grows, honor, inequalities, less, men, notion, rise, such, too, vanish, which , will I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.
by Rose Tremain (Novelist, English , born in 1943) keywords: along, arrive, destination, emerges, goes, going, gradually, journey, likened, notion, novel, picture, revelations, series, some, which, whole, will , writing When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.
by Douglas Trumbull (Director, American , born in 1942) keywords: affected, could, deeply, experience, feature, film, first, first-person, movie, notion, permanently, which , worked 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.
by David Tudor (Musician, American , born in 1926) keywords: basic, idea, instrument, itself, just, notion, reproduction, should, unique, unto, voice , which I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
by Jeff Tweedy (Musician, American , born in 1967) keywords: absurd, certain, failure, get, life, need, notion, point, somehow, think, where , your Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
by John Updike (Novelist, American , born in 1932) keywords: been, could, enough, four, given, had, harvard, learn, liberating, lot, myself, notion, now, still, teach , years The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
by John Updike (Novelist, American , born in 1932) keywords: arising, comes, encouragement, essential, know, mad, needs, notion, only, out, society, support, tell, within , your In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.
by Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Statesman, Indian , born in 1924) keywords: after, anywhere, cold, could, euphoria, every, misplaced, notion, problem, solve, un , war So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed.
by Richard Ben-Veniste (Lawyer, American , born in 1943) keywords: also, discussed, dozens, examples, intentions, knew, notion, other, planes, sources, states, strike, their, united, using, weapons, were , where The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
by Lemuel K. Washburnkeywords: courts, cruel, divorce, foolish, grave, her, husband, more, notion, obey, sent, than, wife , women I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
by Hugo Weaving (Actor, Nigerian , born in 1960) keywords: anywhere, back, belong, country, dreamed, escape, ever, fact, go, going, hideous, nigeria, notion, often, particular, reality, romantic, think , very To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
by Simone Weil (Philosopher, French , born in 1909) keywords: conceived, defined, door, every, kind, morality, neither, nor, notion, open, public, set, standard, tyranny, up , which Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.
by Morris West (Writer, Australian , born in 1916) keywords: buddhist, continuity, east, ever, greatly, impressed, life, lot, notion, quite, talking, things, travelled, turning, well, wheel , which If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.
by James Wolfensohn (Businessman, Australian , born in 1933) keywords: dream, getting, hope, job, notion, palestinians, resources, rid, their, up, used , violence 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.
by Stephen Wolfram (Scientist, English , born in 1959) keywords: anything, both, content, deal, expressions, functions, having, idea, important, most, notion, operate, precedents, programming, represent, setting, structure, symbolic, their, then, up, wants , whole First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.
by Daniel Yergin (Author, American , born in 1947) keywords: americans, common, dependence, different, energy, europeans, find, first, focused, gas, imported, meaning, much, natural, notion, now, question, radically, right, security, very , vocabulary Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.
by Edward Zwick (Director, American , born in 1952) keywords: behaviors, celebrated, certain, code, could, create, culture, did, exist, existed, hundreds, idea, life, moral, notion, operative, really, samurai, some, sort, trying , years
