#notion

Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#did #education #elevation #emancipation #father

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. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#dependence #different #different meaning #different people #energy

This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over. ↗

— Seth Godin

#each #face #flies #industrial #innovate

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#believes #child #children #fact #go

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#began #idea #life #man #new

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial. ↗

— Luc Besson

#because #commercial #film #films #i

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#acceptance #age #always #around #attached

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#away #company #developed #disposable #employee

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. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#could #deeply #experience #feature #feature film

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. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#back #country #dreamed #go #going