#conception

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains. ↗

— Bill Mauldin

#cartoons #conception #draw #encouraged #gag

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age. ↗

— Lesley Nicol

#age #certain #certain age #people #preconceptions

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception. ↗

— Novalis

#conception #deeply #ever #fate #feel

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious. ↗

— Evan Parker

#conception #document #formed #fully #great

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. ↗

— Elihu Root

#among #conception #constitutional #constitutional government #duties

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art. ↗

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#boy #brain #conception #difference #fundamental

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#conception #go #i #man #office

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ↗

— Socrates

#conception #emotional #illusion #mere #morality

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. ↗

— George Soros

#basis #bubbles #distorted #grow #market

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#apply #author #enough #many #measure