Concepts Quotes - Page 24

This whole issue of limits to growth, which provides a psychological, as well as a physical, cap on potential expansion of activity and awareness, has had a very depressing effect on many people.... I don't for a moment think that there's any concept which anyone's working with now which will be followed as a straightforward scenario. But the idea embodied in concepts such as space colonization or space industrialization, or availability of nonterrestrial resources, is fundamental, and it will change the way in which people look at the future.

Rusty Schweickart

Depressing, Thinking, Availability

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The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.

Alexander Kluge

Art, Decision, Television

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Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

Rudolph A. Marcus

Mathematics, Theory, Exposed

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I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.

Vijay Mallya

Accountability, Needs, Parliament

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The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.

Dean Norris

Art, Dad, People

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

Connie Nielsen

Mean, Wish, Different

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Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

Krist Novoselic

Song, Player, Rocks

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It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Dust, Black, Gone

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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.

Taslima Nasrin

Motherhood, Men, Years

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In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'

Keith O'Brien

Attitude, Compassion, Hands

"Lockerbie bomber: Scottish Catholic leader attacks US 'culture of vengeance'" by Jenny Percival, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2010.

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The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.

Wilhelm Ostwald

Views, Development, Creation

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The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis.

Wilhelm Ostwald

Development, Chemical Reactions, Chemicals

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Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Appreciation, Determination, Real

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At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

Alex Lifeson

Afraid Of Death

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No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.

Christian Lous Lange

Differences, Degrees, Sovereign

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I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

Alan Parsons

Honor, Albums, Related

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

Mackenzie Phillips

Wise, Years, Evil

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There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

Giovanni Ribisi

Want, Helping, Film

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I really feel like that concept of enjoying the now and not worrying about the future is what my coach has been trying to teach me for 14 years - and that is what has made me such a different athlete 10 years later, and that is what has made me strong enough mentally to make this Olympic team.

Melanie Roach

Strong, Team, Athlete

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Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

Mercedes Ruehl

Views, Identity, Difficult Times

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Having people wait outside of my house sort of gives me a panic attack. I'm a believer in the concept that people should not be followed and photographed everywhere.

Nikki Reed

People, Giving, House

Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 12, 2009.

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My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.

Cheryl Strayed

People, Advice, Know It All

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My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.

Chloe Sevigny

Jobs, Bmw, Tennis

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Clifford D. Simak

Mystery, Stills, Knows

clifford d. simak (1976). “shakespeare's planet”

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Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.

George Gaylord Simpson

Men, Important, Sides

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