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
Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in… — Steve Stern Copy Share Image
The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
To understand something changing form as a destructive act is a very modern, Western gut reaction to things, and I get it.… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodeled to be market-friendly. So now the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
Democracy has become, unless I mistake, a kind of test or shibboleth, by which we try men and measures; and this is… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with… — Mortimer Collins Copy Share Image
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of… — Kate Bosworth Copy Share Image
Bentley and Lamborghini have been achieving record sales for years. This doesn't support the notion that these models are suddenly social pariahs.… — Martin Winterkorn Copy Share Image
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I am often tired of myself, and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality, and so… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon Copy Share Image
My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
