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The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic.
— Satya Nadella
I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.
— Linus Torvalds
I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
— Ann Richards
That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.
— Rian Johnson
In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
— Marianne Williamson
The human mind defines things in relation to one another - without light the notion of darkness would be unintelligible
— Josh Waitzkin
Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
Sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion.
— H.M. Forester
Such a notion made it virtually impossible to enjoy life! And this, If God did not exist, man would
— Sue Monk Kidd
I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
— Gary McCord
Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.
— Andrew Weil
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
— John Berger
I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.
— Daniel Woodrell
When we allow our children to become independent decision makers we give them a false idea of liberty and a mistaken notion about freedom.
— Tedd Tripp
An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion - or you shall learn nothing.
— Gerald R. Ford
People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact.
— Deepak Chopra
I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.
— W. A. Criswell
The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that
matter is utopian. — Thomas Sowell
matter is utopian. — Thomas Sowell
It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.
— Carlton Cuse
I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.
— Luc Besson
There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.
— George Smoot
To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.
— Richard Rorty
But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?
— Dar Williams
The need of our times is to revive the Nehruvian notion of secularism.
— Khushwant Singh
My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
— Sam Shepard
as we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to fade.
— Amor Towles
I always listen," the duke said, annoyed. "Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders.
— Janny Wurts
Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.
— Walter Lippmann
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
— T. S. Eliot
It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong
— James Branch Cabell
We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.
— Charles Krauthammer
I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"
— Matthew William Goode
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
— Warren Beatty
While we're in the dream, these are useful notions.
— Frederick Lenz
People fall hard for the notion of falling, and saying you want no part of it will only get you sent to the loony bin.
— David Levithan
I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.
— Trevor Noah
The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.
— Nicholas Negroponte
the notion that having a job or an income of any kind should be happiness enough has become outdated.
— Laura Berman Fortgang
I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.
— John Green
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
— Lemuel K. Washburn
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.
— Jay Weatherill
But in all honesty, I do not find it so peculiar a notion, that a Welshman should rule Wales.
— Sharon Kay Penman
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
— Stendhal
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
— Lynn Abbey
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.
— Lewis Thomas
He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta]
— Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco
Our civilisation is haunted by the notion that the quickest way of doing anything is invariably the best.
— George Orwell
At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.
— Matt Smith
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
— Robert Redford
To acclimate students to misery under the rubric that so doing prepares them for life is a cynical notion - and a horrifying one.
— David Guterson
Frex had a notion that she wasn't sorry to see him go off from time to time, so that she could be glad to see him come back.
— Gregory Maguire
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
— Robertson Davies
I've found comfort in the notion that David-man after God's own heart-was often tortured and confused.
— Seth Haines
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
— Lewis Mumford
The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.
— Sakyong Mipham
I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
— Jane Austen
It was a ludicrous notion, born of panic, but no panic is ludicrous in its particular moment. Panic possesses its own logical integrity.
— Rick Yancey
I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.
— Jim Leach
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
— Mark Twain
I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.
— Matthew Rhys
The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.
— Bertrand Russell
The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.
— Ellen McLaughlin
Nonc's pretty okay with the man's death, but the notion that he'll never get dressed again, that he's to die in a gown, seems strange and impossible.
— Adam Johnson
A man can't get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all.
— Mark Twain
I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.
— Jim Gaffigan
I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.
— David Chang
They were simply meant to be.
He understood this was a ludicrously romantic notion.
And he didn't give a fuck. — Kristen Ashley
He understood this was a ludicrously romantic notion.
And he didn't give a fuck. — Kristen Ashley
Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.
— Eduard Hanslick
Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.
— George Eliot
The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.
— Katharine Hepburn
Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive.
— Jane Yolen
Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
— Soren Kierkegaard
For some extraordinary reason, there is a fixed notion that it is more liberal to disbelieve in miracles than to believe in them.
— G.K. Chesterton
Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want.
— Mark Sanford
To make of "the truth" a goddess amounts to turning the mere notion of something, namely the concept of the essence of truth, into a "personality.
— Martin Heidegger
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
— Scott McCloud
Adrian, however, pushed us to believe in the application of thought to life, in the notion
— Julian Barnes
Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.
— Jean Sasson
We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
— Jose Saramago
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
— William James
Though not my field, I was familiar with the notion of alternative realities, but was not used to occupying the one I liked the best.
— David Nicholls