Concepts Quotes

• Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

  James Bryant Conant

  Science, Development, Facts

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• What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Beautiful, Mean, Beauty Everywhere

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• I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since you have it at hand to meet situations that you do not anticipate. If you have the luxury of anticipating a lethal encounter, you pick up a long arm, either a rifle or a shotgun, but in that case you go on to the attack. Thus rifle shooting is offensive, and pistol shooting is defensive. Of course, life does not always duplicate theory, and there are exceptions to everything, but nevertheless the rifle is not a defensive weapon in concept.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Hands, Luxury

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• The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

  Walter Benjamin

  Ideas, Progress, Status Quo

  Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings (2003). “Selected Writings: 1938-1940”, p.184, Harvard University Press

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• Concepts antedate facts.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Ideas, Facts

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.35, Rowman Altamira

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• Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless

  Steven Pinker

  Goal, Meaningless

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• Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life.

  James Surowiecki

  Might, Corporations, Crash

  "The Open Secret of Success". www.newyorker.com. May 12, 2008.

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• Concepts become forces when they resist one another

  Johann Friedrich Herbart

  Force

  Johann Friedrich Herbart, Daniel N. Robinson (1977). “A Text-book in Psychology”, Univ Publications of Amer

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• If you do not have the concept of distance, you may reach an unreachable place!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Distance, May, Unreachable

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• Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

  Chip Kidd

  Falling In Love, Jobs, Technology

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• The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If its coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

  Malcolm Wallop

  Crazy, Thinking, Government

  "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'The Great American Experiment'". Interview With Peter Evans, Helen Evans, www.ff.org. January 6, 2013.

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• If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

  Neil Postman

  Children, Parenting, Childhood

  Neil Postman (2011). “Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future”, p.138, Vintage

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• The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Order

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.36, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.'

  Julie Burchill

  Sunday, Ideas, Clothes

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• There needs to be just a little bit of crazy when dreaming up a new concept.

  Sam Lake

  Dream, Crazy, Needs

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• Innovation is really the concept of converging disparate ideas in a new way.

  Gary Shapiro

  Ideas, Innovation, Way

  Source: skift.com

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• Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

  Bede Griffiths

  Reality, Vision, Adequate

  Bede Griffiths (2004). “Bede Griffiths: Essential Writings”

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• There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.

  George Papandreou

  Dirty, Thinking, Games

  "George Papandreou: The Greek Thinker". Interview with Nicole Itano, papandreou.gr. April 12, 2010.

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• Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Mind, Firsts, Judgment

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, p.385, Harvard University Press

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• Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

  Rick Perry

  Moving, Gay, Marijuana

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• I disagree with the concept that somehow or another we're going to pack up 10, to 12, to 15 million people and ship them back to the country of origin. That's not going to happen.

  Rick Perry

  Country, People, Ships

  "Perry Supports Work Visas for Illegal Immigrants". CNN Interview, blog.chron.com. November 03, 2011.

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• I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

  Todd Phillips

  Thinking, People, Stuff

  "Director Todd Phillips Interview DUE DATE and THE HANGOVER 2". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 28, 2010.

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• I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Writing, Two

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• My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Travel, People, Bells

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• I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

  Dan Quayle

  Believe, Careers, Politics

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