Quotes by Suggestions Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality. Adam Grant suggestions target people If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions. Adam Grant suggestions want ideas I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed. Alain de Botton suggestions modern sex Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society. Alan Cohen suggestions purpose spiritual The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion. Albert Einstein suggestions solitude life In conclusion I wish to say that in working at the problem here dealt with I have had the loyal assistance of my friend and colleague M. Besso, and that I am indebted to him for several valuable suggestions. Albert Einstein suggestions wish science I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times equal to the national defence...The facts, which from our own experience forbid a reliance of this kind, are too recent to permit us to be the dupes of such a suggestion. Alexander Hamilton suggestions country people If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it. Alexandra Bracken suggestions ifs There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents, and he won't let anybody interrupt his harangue until he has made all his useful suggestions about the 24 states of the Union, and especially the district he represents. Alexis de Tocqueville suggestions government home When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us. Algernon Blackwood suggestions imagination darkness Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd. Alvin Toffler assassins suggestions ideas Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit. Ambrose Bierce suggestions advice giving I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money. Andy Warhol suggestions money people All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question. Ani DiFranco freedom-of-the-press suggestions people I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions Anita Hill saying-no suggestions regret Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. Anthony Hecht suggestions secret dark Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered, always carefully crafted and almost always correct (which is to say we sometimes disagree). That much is apparent for all to see. What only her colleagues know is that her suggestions improve the opinions the rest of us write, and that she is a source of collegiality and good judgment in all our work. Antonin Scalia suggestions opinion writing Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion. Aristotle suggestions virtue happiness The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. Arthur Bloch never-compromise suggestions compromise Among all forms of mentation, verbal thinking is the most articulate, the most complex, and the most vulnerable to infectious diseases. It is liable to absorb whispered suggestions, and to incorporate them as hidden persuaders into the code. Arthur Koestler suggestions disease thinking 1234567891011»