Suggestions Quotes

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

Well, everybody's a drummer, I'll tell you that right now. Everybody knows what's right rhythmically for a song, so there were always suggestions flying my way.

Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.

To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

I think that the existence of Beethoven is remarkable, but I do not bristle at the suggestion that this event had a low probability given the initial state of the universe.

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

Suggestion is a literary strategy.

Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.

I doubt anybody would have pushed me [on the music]. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions on the music.

And if the audience is in a kind of naughty, raunchy mood, then they're going to make naughty, raunchy suggestions and then we take them and we do the scene anyway, and that's part of the fun.

I have a suggestion," said Valentine to Luke, in a surprisingly even tone. "Let me guess," said Luke. "It's 'Don't kill me,' isn't it?

Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions.

Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.

Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend.

I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.

I believe we have breaks because we need them. So my suggestion is that you take the break. Eat chocolate.

We don't criticize. Criticism is an enemy. You've got to make loving, positive suggestions.

People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.

There is no suggestion box in the Psych Ward.

Being sexy is not about what's on show, it's all about suggestion, or insinuation. I'm interested in the way a garment hangs on a woman's body and the way it moves when she moves.

The trouble with making intelligent suggestions is that you're apt to be appointed to carry them out.

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

Leaving your ears open to the suggestions of others only closes the mind's eye, thereby creating a type of spiritual glaucoma.

We also get thousands of suggestions. The default answer is always no.

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.

[On accepting travel suggestions from her two daughters, 6 and 3:] When they pay for the vacation, they get to dictate where we go.

All coaches religiously carry fungo bats in the spring to ward off suggestions that they are not working.

I like to give opinions, not suggestions

Are you at work?" I asked. Not precisely, but that's a good suggestion.

I don't know if we're cutting out, but a friend made a really fascinating suggestion to me; that maybe I could go higher.

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

What am I going to do with you? I have suggestions, but this might not be the place for them.

When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted... the decades roll on without even a suggestion that perhaps the whole matter must be rethought

Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.