Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions. — John Medina Copy Share Image
Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind.… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing… — Ira Glasser Copy Share Image
Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Everything's a film idea if this is what you do.I've always been secretly confident that I'd never run out of ideas,because I've… — Alan Rudolph Copy Share Image
Idonot likebeingmoved:for thewill isexcited;andaction Is a most dangerous thing: I tremble for something factitious, Some malpractice of heart and illegitimate process; We… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
Let's be clear: Neither Secretary Powell or I opposed the notion of removing Saddam Hussein by force, but we wanted to avoid… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
The evidence is overwhelming that Planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. In other words, SOME UFOs are alien… — Stanton T. Friedman Copy Share Image
The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized… — John Turner Copy Share Image
There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind;… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
In my personal life, I have always been bold, from the clothes I wear to how I talk. For me, boldness does… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to… — George Singleton Copy Share Image
And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones. — Wes Nisker Copy Share Image
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
