Chance Quote by Ned Beauman

Some people think that if they change the names of things, the things themselves will have changed, too

— David McKay

I'm starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can't be a mistake if I just call it 'change.'

— Sara Bareilles

Why does naming a thing give it so much power?

— Ellen Sussman

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.

— Holly Black

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

— Amiri Baraka

It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.

— Natalie Babbitt

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they…

— Anonymous

What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that…

— Robert M. Pirsig

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

— Pierre Bonnard

When a really new product comes along, it's almost always a mistake to hang a well-known name on it. The reason is obvious. A…

— Al Ries

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

— Zig Ziglar