Concepts Quotes - Page 34

• In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, Facts, Leafs

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• Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Ideas

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• In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it.

  Eugene Jarvis

  Fun, Games, Play

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• I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don't think that I was that literal.

  Vera Wang

  Latin, Struggle, Thinking

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• We have, without any fanfare or much conversation, moved into a era in which news organizations are expected to explain themselves. Twenty years ago, it would not be expected that the New York Times would explain itself. The concept of what accountability.

  Alex Jones

  New York, Years, Organization

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• I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly dangerous criminals and terrorists to trump the rights of the people of Britain to live in security and peace.

  David Cameron

  Believe, Rights, People

  "Balancing freedom and security - a modern British Bill of Rights". www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2006.

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• But it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child. Indeed, if we were to start judging parents on the basis of their political beliefs, we would change the concept of family for the rest of time.

  Janet Reno

  Children, Father, Judging

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• Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  May, Matter, Humans

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• Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.

  Arthur J. Deikman

  Children, Fear, Dark

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• Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Quality, Facts

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• All the money was spent for the 'Concept Plan' document, which made reasonable recommendations for developments. Now that's kind of being forgotten. That's why I think the public trust is being betrayed.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Betrayal, Thinking, Development

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• I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been touched by beauty. The words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement, all these have nestled in my soul. Though I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice in my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights.

  Luis Barragan

  Inspiration, Light, Justice

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• People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru concept, a teacher like that is very abusive. Those people are actually usually taking their students energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Discovery, Self

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• Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation
  Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a single-minded resistance to any distraction from the central aim of keeping watch over the Tortuguero nesting colony and a determination to make it the most thoroughly studied sea turtle population in the world.

  Archie Carr

  Determination, Marine, Turtles

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• My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see?

  Orson Welles

  Marijuana, Light, Texas

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• We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Identity, Revolution, Dimensions

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• Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Done, Structure, My Own

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• Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reduction, Introduction, Absurdity

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• All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Fall, Light

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• You can only be you when you do your best. When you don't do your best you are denying yourself the right to be you. That's a seed that you should really nurture in your mind. You don't need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don't need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Philosophical, Acceptance

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• A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That’s the power of story.

  Marshall Ganz

  Teaching, Heart, Anxiety

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• The whole concept of having something really in-your-face that you're forced to listen to is beautiful because I think music should be an event and not something that's just dismissed.

  Youth Lagoon

  Beautiful, Thinking, Events

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. January 23, 2013.

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• It's kind of a unique concept, but it's totally real, isn't it? ... I mean, these paramedics put themselves in incredibly stressful situations, are killing themselves to save our lives and they're not really regarded or appreciated.

  Nicolas Cage

  Real, Mean, Unique

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• There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all Canadian" boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Girl, Hate, Boys

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1972). “Conversation with Canadians”

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• Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

  Criss Jami

  Trying, Fool, Honest

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.37, Criss Jami

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