Sense Quotes

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?

As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

All those zany comedies have instilled a sense of pace in me.

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.