“It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.” PeopleMatterHappensOpinionLearningGood ThingsBeing True Book:The Mortal Storm Source: The Mortal Storm
“I think every citizen in Burlington has a right to voice their opinion and participate in the local political process no matter who they are or what they are or where they come from or what their religious beliefs are. But for me to base all of my decisions based on my reading of the Holy Bible just isn't going to happen.” ThinkingMatterHappensPoliticalReadingBeliefProcessVoiceReligiousDecisionOpinionCitizensHolyBibleLocalsReligious BeliefHoly Bible Author:Tim Scott
“I think it's incumbent upon me to try to be smart and make good choices and work with good people and work my ass off when I'm working with good people and I have to let everyone have their opinion afterwards. But this is what happens. You make a movie or you're on a show and then you have this experience and everyone tells you what you did. They tell you what you did. That's allowed. That's the experience of being human and subjectivity. That's it. We can only do what we'll do, and I can only do the best I can do.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansI CanShowsHappensChoicesCan DoOpinionSmartAssGood PeopleBeing HumanDo The BestBeing SmartSubjectivityIncumbentsGood Choices Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!” WorldHappensMotherFeltParentOpinionAdviceHorrorDiscoveryPrejudiceFolksRealisingSuperiorityPropositionsScorned Book:Love Over Scotland Source: Love Over Scotland
“The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.” NeedsBelieveDoeIdeasPhilosophyHappensFormIndividualOpinionRightsTroubleGroupsTerribleRegardIllnessCriticalMindsetThings HappenSocialismMental IllnessAcquireFacultyBeesSocialistInsignificantTerrible ThingsUnwillingEvaluateBonnets Author:L. Neil Smith
“The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.” RealHappensProcessDecisionOpinionSupportMeetingsDevelopingGatheringMaking Decisions Author:Bill Vaughan
“people, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark they happen to hear. So the best policy is to dictate to others the opinion you want them to have of you.” PeopleWantEnoughHappensChanceOpinionPolicyObviousLazyRemarks Book:Style and substance: a comedy of manners Source: Style and substance: a comedy of manners