Quotes of: Popular-opinion Keyword

They have their opinions, but we have the answers.

Anthony Liccione

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

Anita Borg

In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds u...

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter how the cast performed, the end turned out the same....

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

Group membership can modify individuals' perceptions of themselves. Unable to separate their personal introspection from the ways they believe other people perceive them, teenagers may have what psychologists call an "imaginary audience", meaning tha...

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

Gaming was "one of the only times when you only have to focus on one thing." But even more than that, "It's like an anchor. As long as I know it's there, it's part of me. It's some form of continuity that in my life I desperately need.

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport

Moral scepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual scepticism can. When we stick to it that there is truth (be it of either kind), we do so with our whole nature, and resolve to stand or fall by the results. The sceptic with...

The Will to Believe, Human Immortality, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

I am not my opinion of myself, I am not anything I can describe to me. I am only a part of a large system that cannot describe itself fully; therefore, I relax and I am in the point source of consciousness, of delight, of mobility, in the inner space...

The Center of the Cyclone: Looking into Inner Space

Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him...

Edmund Burke

Being an actress doesn't make you popular in school.

Kirsten Dunst

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

Dweezil Zappa

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

Francis Lee

My kids are now the most popular kids in their school.

Chris Daughtry

Gossip is more popular than literature.

Hugh Leonard

I keep lot of my opinions to myself.

Lee Trevino

I'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion.

Reese Witherspoon

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

Ellen Swallow Richards

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

James Mackintosh