Top 395 Suggestion Quotes & Sayings

In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

The lives of all of us have been moulded largely by induction through suggestion.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

Given the proper suggestion, the Subconscious Mind will manifest success from failure, health from disease, prosperity from poverty, friendship and love from loneliness and isolation. For nothing is impossible to the Subconscious Mind and it operates entirely by suggestion.

The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

There is no suggestion box in the Psych Ward.

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.

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

I'm quite into the French way - simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar.

L’architecture est art de suggestion.

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

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.

Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.

There's no suggestion of why people might have voted for [Donald] Trump.

At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

Creativity is not the domain of one single person. Through free-association of thoughts and brainstorming, an accidental suggestion can be the best solution.

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

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.

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

I had to persuade a dog to swallow a pill. I twittered for advice and I got suggestion after suggestion. Most of them didn't work. 'Put the pill in the sausage.' No - that doesn't work. 'Cheese.' No. Then someone said: 'You wrap it in butter and it will slide down.' I tried it and it worked! And I'd learnt how to give a pill to a dog through the magic of Twitter.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

I think it's a blessing that the show [Dracula] is on a network because it forces everyone to use their imaginations and be creative. The power of suggestion comes back. So, in the sex scenes, no one is ever fully naked, but I feel the suggestion is so much sexier.

Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect.

If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.

If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it.

My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.

My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do.

The imagination is such as powerful tool: suggestion is all you need. People fill in gaps.

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

[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

When it comes to investing, my suggestion is to first understand your strengths and weaknesses, and then devise a simple strategy so that you can sleep at night!

Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

In my pictures, you never know, that’s the mystery. It’s just a suggestion and you leave it to the audience to put what they want on it. It’s fashion in disguise.

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

Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.

What really irks me is the snide victimizing suggestion from some that I have tried to be lighthearted and funny... Oh my God - this is so offensive.

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children?s hands.

All of the great leaders down through history have told us we become what we think about. In fact, they have been in complete and unanimous agreement on this point while they disagree on almost every other point. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people rarely think, they simply accept what they see or hear. The next time someone gives you a suggestion, rather than simply accepting and acting on the suggestion - THINK - exercise your reasoning factor. Ask yourself if the suggestion will improve the quality of your life.

If you look at the RNC, we had a very strong - at my suggestion and I give Reince Priebus credit for this - at my suggestion, because I know something about this world, I said I want a very strong defensive mechanism, I don't want to be hacked, and we did that.

Suggestion is a literary strategy.

Look, I'd take a suggestion from my grandmother if I thought it would improve a film I was writing.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.

I took his suggestion to heart and went from a "know-it-all" to a "learn-it-all."

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

My one suggestion going forward is, any felony committed against a woman should be a full-season suspension.

Suggestion is generally better than Definition. There is a seeming dogmatism about Definition that is often repellent, while Suggestion, on the contrary, disarms suspicion and summons to co-operation and experiment. Definition provokes discussion. Suggestion provokes to love and good works. Defining is limiting. Suggestion is enlarging. Defining calls a halt; Suggestion calls for an advance. Defining involves the peril of contentment: "I am here, I rest." "Thus far," says Definition, and draws a map. "Westward," cries Suggestion, and builds a boat.

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

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

There's more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.

There is nothing that impairs a man's sexual performance quicker than any suggestion that he's not doing it right ('Not there, you idiot!').