Quotes of: Preconceived-notion Keyword

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.

David Duchovny

On the 'Celestial Seasonings' green tea packet there is a short explanation of its benefits: 'Green tea is a natural source of antioxidants, which neutralize harmful molecules in the body known as free radicals. By taming free radicals, antioxidants ...

Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Five Interventions in the (Mis)use of a Notion

For deep adherents, the Koran would seem to echo great truths given directly to a vaunted and hallowed prophet by a deity of overwhelming power and grandeur. If you don’t hold any such archaic notions, however, the words attributed to Allah come ac...

Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works

Few societies have come to grips with the new demography. We cling to the notion of retirement at sixty-five - a reasonable notion when those over sixty-five were a tiny percentage of the population but increasingly untenable as they approach 20 perc...

Atul Gawande

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

Peter Jennings

The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

Russ Feingold

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

Trey Gowdy

Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.

Laurieann Gibson

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

Jeff Tweedy

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

Henry Reed

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

Michael Leunig

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Alfred North Whitehead

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.

Margaret Cho

There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.

Freida Pinto

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

Clifford Geertz

Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.

Cheris Kramarae

I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.

Dustin Yellin

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

James Hillman

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

Peter O'Toole

I like the notion of making stuff up or letting your imagination go away with you.

Stevie Jackson

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

David Suzuki