Quotes About Conceptualization

The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.

When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.

Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be made less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I've come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.

You have to have the brain to conceptualize technique and apply it to your body.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

We perceive existence by means of words and names. To this or that vague, potential thing I will give a name, and it will exist thereafter, and its existence will be clearly perceived. The name enables me to see it. I can call it by its name, and I can see it for what it is.

Every time you discuss the future [in English], grammatically you're forced to cleave that from the present and treat it as if it's something viscerally different.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think

We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

modernity likes the abstract over the particular;

The Fatigues all talk like that. Big-Picture-speak, Risa calls it. Seeing the whole, and none of the parts. It's not just in their speech but in their eyes as well. When they look at Risa, she can tell they don't really see her. They seem to see the mob of Unwinds more as a concept rather than a collection of anxious kids, and so they miss all the subtle social tremors that shake things just as powerfully as the jets shake the roof.

There's nothing wrong with conceptualization per se; but when we take our opinions about any event to be some kind of absolute truth and fail to see that they are opinions, then we suffer. That's false suffering.

It's the play of our minds, of conceptualization about anything that happens to us, that is the problem. There's nothing wrong with conceptualization per se; but when we take our opinions about any event to be some kind of absolute truth and fail to see that they are opinions, then we suffer.

Metaphor is thus imaginative rationality.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

She, like many, had always thought that mathematics did not derive its meaning from the universe, but rather imposed some meaning onto the universe.

So much of the time spent on 'Zootopia' was inventing it. What does it look like? How does it work?

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

THE PREMISE OF THIS BOOK CAME TO ME CIRCA 2006

The average buyer of an OS is not really paying for, and is not especially interested in, the low-level code that allocates memory or writes bytes onto the disk. What we're really buying is a system of metaphors. And--much more important--what we're buying into is the underlying assumption that metaphors are a good way to deal with the world.

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

Il mistero di come i concetti e le idee prendano corpo in noi attraverso i segni che ci scambiamo lo affascinava sempre di più negli ultimi tempi. Il linguaggio. Avrebbe trattato prima o poi il problema delle sue forme. Avrebbe trattato anche quello.