Concrete Quotes - Page 16

• Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.

  Mona Hatoum

  Art, Issues, Journalism

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• I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.

  Tamara Tunie

  Believe, Opportunity, Goal

  "Tamara Tunie on Her Feinstein's Show and Audition Advice". Interview with Jordyn Taylor, www.backstage.com. October 25, 2012.

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• Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language.

  Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

  Military, Men, Ideas

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• God Bless the grass That grows through the crack They roll the concrete over it To try and keep it back The concrete gets tired Of what it has to do It breaks and it buckles And the grass grows through. God bless the grass

  Malvina Reynolds

  Tired, Trying, Cracks

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• Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.

  John F. Kennedy

  Alliances, Deeds, Constructs

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.520, Best Books on

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• The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

  Erich Fromm

  Businessman, Aim, Persons

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.124, Open Road Media

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• Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.

  Michael Dolan

  Powerful, Concrete Jungle, Peaceful

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• The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Women, Independence, Today

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

  Ross Macdonald

  Broken, Wish, Locks

  Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: three exciting novels: The moving target, The way some people die [and] The barbarous coast”

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• Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that is the only way I can describe what I see. That is a proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image which I make intelligible in part by means of a statement of fact. This statement is abstract; but what I see is concrete.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Morning, Spring, Mean

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• Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the symbolic action of ritual, but in the concrete theater of society at large.

  Jonathan Raban

  Discipline, People, Society

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

  Max Weber

  Bears, Artistic, Type

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.151, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

  Philip Johnson

  Wall, Talking, Rooms

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• Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

  Richard Rohr

  Jesus, Revealing, Universal Truth

  "Creation as the Body of God" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2011.

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• If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what we can buy and build, and that has never been America's true God.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Powerful, Humble, America

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• I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

  Hayley Atwell

  Thinking, Play, Easier

  "Hayley Atwell Interview - BRIDESHEAD REVISTED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 8, 2008.

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• U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Thinking, Political Will, Creating

  UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. December 3, 2012.

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• As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

  Michael Arad

  Glasses, Cities, Imagining The Future

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• The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.

  Carl G. Fisher

  Science, Rocks, America

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• I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Believe, Past, Trying

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• The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental, moral, and social life; the pragmatic study of methodologies to improve our body-mind functioning and thus expand our capacities of self-fashioning; and the practical branch that investigates such pragmatic methods by testing them on our own flesh in concrete experience and practice.

  Richard Shusterman

  Philosophy, Self, Practice

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• I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician.

  Alexei Navalny

  Order, Goal, Leader

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• There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Space, Design, Building

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• A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in which sentiment, idea, and will are confounded together, where for the lack of the powerful corrective of logic, the flights of imagination know no bounds, where life and human activity are deprived of a regulator, and move outside of material and concrete factors, by the sole interior force of the soul.

  Kadmi Cohen

  Powerful, Moving, Passion

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• There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

  Laurence Tribe

  Progress, Liberty, Fit

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