Opinion Quotes — Page 41

HW

Author

“People who work for me know that they have a lot of autonomy. I like to know what's going on, and I'll offer my opinion, but I want people to feel that they can say to me, "That's great that you have that opinion, but, no, we're not going to do that."”

People Want Opinion

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Geoff Dyer

Author

“Nicholson Baker talks about the way in which the most successful nonfiction books are those that can be boiled down into an argument so that everybody can wade in with an opinion without having to undergo the inconvenience of having to read the book itself. The more you can condense it, the better.”

Book Successful Opinion

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Politician, Philosopher, Orator

“Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.”

Law Ends

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.”

Opinion Cynicism

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Geoff Dyer

Author

“I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.”

Thinking Opinion Boredom

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FD

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer

“Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.”

Needs Loss Opinion

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JA

James Arthur

Singer-Songwriter

“William Shakespeare tried hard to see every facet of every question, probably because he was more interested in questions than in answers. That's a big part of what makes him great, in my opinion.”

Opinion

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.”

Air Opinion Stupidity

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.”

Mind Forever Opinion

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.”

Book Opinion Delivering

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.”

Culture Opinion Obstacles

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Nicolas Cage

Actor, Producer

“Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and where it raises more questions than answers.”

Answers Levels Opinion

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