#minds

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#care #change #controversial #facets #her

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#alone #books #change #copies #feel

There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#been #calculated #cavalry #consequence #force

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#because #else #fantasy #frustrating #frustrating thing

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#deceive #minds #open #other #say

The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#corporations #did #doors #during #equal

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide. ↗

— Quintilian

#form #minds #must #our #rather

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost. ↗

— Quintilian

#lost #making #making up #minds #opportunity

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. ↗

— Quintilian

#appetite #both #change #fresh #like

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#believe #children #endure #fit #free