#notion

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #notion




But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.


Richard Serra


#broadening #does #effort #experiences #i

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


#devil #familiar #good #good work #making

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.


Aldous Huxley


#actually #always #appearance #been #beings

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.


Angela Carter


#cults #does #emotional #father #first

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


#am #ask #attitudes #carbon #change

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.


Brigitte Bardot


#established #goal #i #notions #part

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.


Jeff Tweedy


#certain #certain point #failure #get #i

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.


John Updike


#comes #encouragement #essential #know #mad

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.


Margaret Cho


#i #life #long #much #my life

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.


John Updike


#could #enough #four #given #had