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Letter "O" » Opinions
«Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.»
Author: Alyssa Milano
(Actress)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Opinions
| Keywords:
actors, breed, depend upon, insecure
«A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.»
Author: Kenneth A. Wells
| About:
Listening,
Opinions,
Understanding
| Keywords:
disagree, disagreed, disagreeing, disagrees, exactly, in the end, listener, listeners, sharply, tries
«And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh?»
«Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Business,
Opinions
| Keywords:
dance step, hustle, hustled, hustles, hustling, popular opinion, procedure, procedures
«A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind»
Author: John Maynard Keynes
| About:
History,
Mind,
Opinions,
Study
| Keywords:
emancipation, preliminary
«As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Leadership,
Opinions
| Keywords:
all along, con, cons, directed, discussion, endeavored, flock, go out, nimble, oftentimes, represent, shepherd, shepherded, stays, the discussion, The Others, venturing, whereupon
«A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Change,
Opinions
| Keywords:
constitutional, free people, in restraint, popular opinion, restraint
«A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
agree, appeared, LED, obviously, philosophers
«Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
obstinately, zealously
«At my age getting a second doctor?s opinion is kinda like switching slot machines.»
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