#notion

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#becoming #been #being #fear #fundamentalism

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#all things #art #attention #create #creative

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#before #child #conceived #down #every

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#either #greater #industry #lack #life

I am against the notion of style in itself. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#am #i #i am #itself #notion

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions! ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#against #always #assistance #beauty #collaborator

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

#greatest #notions #seem #silliest #you

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#able #bank #change #her #like

I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#am #big #big deal #bin #creation

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial. ↗