If, for example, you're allergic to bee stings, pursuing a career as a beekeeper perhaps isn't advisable; however, if your one weakness happens to be doughnuts or another, equally delicious confectionery, maybe it's not such a bad notion.
At one point, George Will could compare Hefner to Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby — not an entirely bad notion, given that the essential vulgarity of Gatsby's taste, obvious to his creator, has been eclipsed by the retrospective glamour that has been placed on the book.
One of Peter Thiel's favorite bad-boy notions is that competition is "antipodal to capitalism": once a company becomes successful, it should try to establish a monopoly position, so that it can charge the kind of prices and make the kind of profits that are available only to companies without meaningful competitors.
For someone who has such little use for "good" and "bad," the very notions of "yes" and "no" are equally prosaic.
Too bad our current notions of how to keep America secure and prosperous have brought us just the opposite: war, disease, barren seas and soil.
The toll has gone down despite predictions that it would rise in a bad economy — a notion rejected by the city's police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly.
The idea that he could be labeled as a player who stayed around too long, Cone said, was not as bad as "the notion of walking away too soon".
When a Jain monk volunteers to lie upon a bed infested with vermin that suck his blood, he may do so to diminish a client's or patron's burden of bad karma (the notion that every deed, good or bad, receives due reward or retribution), but at the same time he practices the monastic virtues prescribed for him as a monk.
If it's really bad, entertain the notion of attending a 12 step program or meeting.
"You don't have bad habits or preconceived notions.
