“Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.” WayMeanGrowthBehindsCreativeDemocracyEssentialsAmbitionIdealsDemocraticNotionImpulseInitiativeVitalityStandardizationDemocratic Ideals Author:Ida Tarbell
“I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an atheist, I still believe strongly in the power of free will (despite the mysticism in my prose). I don't believe in the notion of a pre-ordained destiny, and I think because of the sudden death of my father at sixteen I learnt then that it is essential to live life to the fullest as it could be snatched away at any second.” ThinkingBelieveStillsPhilosophyFatherDestinyEssentialsNotionDon't BelieveAtheistDrivenDespiteLive LifeProseMysticismFree WillFierceEighteenSixteenI Still BelieveLive Life To The FullestSudden Death Author:Tobsha Learner
“Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.” StarsGroupsEssentialsNotionProfessionArchitectureContradictionCollectivesModesty Author:Rem Koolhaas
“I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.” LongGrowsHigherEssentialsNotionAbandonedHigher Education Author:Robert Moses
“The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.” MindChristianValuesAsksChristianityLove YouEssentialsAnd LoveNotionNeighborGod LoveEntiretyValue SystemsLove Your NeighborGod And Love Author:Dennis Prager
“The ways sexuality plays out in political economies is central. And Cambodia's political economy is organized around this notion of family. So lesbianism is actually perceived as being threatening to a degree that it would have not been, for example, under socialist East Germany. But it's one of the essential issues of women's freedom: Do you get to do want you want to do with your body? Not if you don't know what your body is for.” IfsKnowsWayWantPlayBodyPoliticalEconomyIssuesExampleEssentialsDegreesNotionSexualityEastYour BodyGermanyOrganizedSocialistThreateningPolitical EconomyCambodiaLesbianismEast Germany Author:Anne Elizabeth Moore
“Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.” RealChristianDesireStrongChristReligiousDivineEssentialsNotionHungerSeedsMagneticDivine Nature Book:William Law: The Works Source: William Law: The Works
“The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.” KnowsNeedsLiteratureSupportEssentialsEncouragementMadNotionSupport And Encouragement Author:John Updike
“the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life.” IfsGivingShouldMindBelieveMadeDifficultCostEssentialsDepressionGiving UpBehaviorGloryAbsolutesNotionOneselfIllnessExtremesMoodReactionsFlightMade ItSubstanceTemporaryIntensityPsychotic Author:Kay Redfield Jamison
“Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.” BelieveStillsVisionIdentityEssentialsCriticismMajorityNotionFolksHipsBordersFixedCharacteristicsTraitsRootedDiverseSophisticatedLocationCrossingsStaticSubjectivityThis SocietyHybridity Author:Bell Hooks
“Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.” EssentialsBehaviorNotionOneselfExtremesMoodReactionsSubstanceTemporaryPsychotic Author:Kay Redfield Jamison
“What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.” WorldGrowsSinRaceProgressTypeHigherMoralityEssentialsElementsEthicsIncreaseNotionCuriosityCurrentsRejectionIndividualismAssertionMonotonyColorless Book:Intentions Source: Intentions