“Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.” HappensEventsNotionMisfortunes Author:Stendhal
“I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects of it did not occur to me -- I had no notion of this terrorist network that existed. I knew the were a lot of people in the world who didn't like us, but I had no idea that it was as well organized as it apparently is. That's one of the amazing facets of this terrible event: how well they did it. Incredible. The competence of these evil people.” PeopleWorldWellsIdeasEvilEventsTelevisionTerribleAspectNotionIncrediblesTerroristHorribleDumbNo IdeaSatOrganizedCompetenceFacetsEvil PeopleTerrible Events Author:Andy Rooney
“Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms - what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.” ShouldLongIdeasLawCoursesHouseCommonEventsOughtCallingDegreesNormalIllusionErrorsNotionStupidityFinishedFirmRisenResidualLaw Firms Author:Alain de Botton
“It saddens me that a historic event like this is being misconstrued by a small but vocal group of critics trying to spread the notion that the UN gathering is really the work of radicals and atheists bent on destroying our families.” TryingGroupsEventsCriticsNotionAtheistScarySpreadRadicalOur FamilyDestroyingBentGatheringHistoricVocalMisconstrued Author:Hillary Clinton
“My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.” ArtMagicEventsMaterialsArt IsSacredNotionPossessionWoundsIncarnationOverloadSpillingMagic Words Author:Joyelle McSweeney
“The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation.” StoriesLife IsEventsEvolutionNotionRapidsFullnessDisturbedUnfoldingEquilibriumHistory Of LifeGradualismSpeciation Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.” IfsKnowsMenFeelingsSecretEventsJudgingFoolSorrowTablesNotionKnow MeSecret Thoughts Book:The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
“It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.” WayFirstsImportantEventsTruth IsConceptsEssenceImportant ThingsNotionBeing TrueAcademic Author:Mike Leigh
“Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the twain shall meet, in much the same way that Judeo-Christian theology presents its notion of the afterlife - there's a very clear and impermeable demarcation there.” WayChristianClearEventsNotionTheologyHorizonAfterlifeSingularityEvent HorizonChristian Theology Author:Ron Currie Jr.