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Quotes About Concept

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.
~ John von Neumann
Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.
~ Xenobia Bailey
Can you get this coffee on expenses?" "I can," said Flora, looking down at the Harbor's Rest's offering in disgust. "I don't think I will, though. Out of respect to the concept of coffee.
~ Jenny Colgan
I remembered when he'd explained the concept of infinity to me. Immeasurable, one moment stretching out to the next.
~ Jenny Han
It's hard to redefine something that never had a clear definition in the first place.
~ Jenny Han
Also, it's hard to redefine something that never had a clear definition in the first place.
~ Jenny Han
Concept of Others As "identity diffusion" describes the borderline's lack of a stable concept of self, "object inconstancy" describes the lack of a stable concept of others. Just as his own self-esteem depends on current
~ Jerold J. Kreisman
Why isn't every basic law a miracle by definition?
~ Jerry Fodor
The practice of creating engaging, efficient user experiences is called user-centered design. The concept of user-centered design is very simple: Take the user into account every step of the way as you develop your product. The implications of this simple concept, however, are surprisingly complex. Everything the user experiences should be the result of a conscious decision on your part.
~ Jesse James Garrett
One concept of activity, the modern one, refers to the use of energy for the achievement of external aims; the other concept of activity refers to the use of man's inherent powers, regardless of whether any external change is brought about.
~ Erich Fromm
In this very fact that the messiah is a symbol of a new historical period, and not a savior, lies one decisive difference between the Jewish concept and the one developed by the Christian Church.
~ Erich Fromm
Needless to say that in this beautiful poem Goethe expresses the core of his concept of investigating nature.
~ Erich Fromm
Opposition is a category of man's mind, not in itself an element of reality.
~ Erich Fromm
This holds true for the whole of a doctrine or of a theoretical system as well as for a single concept, like love, justice, equality, sacrifice. Each such concept and each doctrine has an emotional matrix and this matrix is rooted in the character structure of the individual.
~ Erich Fromm
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Når det kommer til stykket, er jeg ikke sikker på om De har moralsk rett til å blande dem i saken. Dessuten tror jeg fremdeles ikke det er noen fare på ferde. Etter min mening er det absurd å gå fra konseptene fordi om noen mennesker har fått lyst til å skifte ham. Det får bli deres egen sak. Det står enhver fritt for.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Purity, especially bodily purity, is the seemingly innocent concept behind a number of the most sinister social actions of the past century.
~ Eula Biss
it sometimes seems to me the entire postmodern assault on the concept of truth has been staged to avoid just this conclusion: some cultures are simply more productive than others
~ Andrew Klavan
A metaphor has three parts: the object we are trying to describe, the term we use to describe it, and the idea that is conveyed when the two come together. In this, a metaphor is itself a metaphor for the Trinity. In the Trinity, the object we are trying to describe is God the Father, the term we use to describe it is Jesus the Son, and when we grasp that idea, we are filled with the Spirit.
~ Andrew Klavan
She'd become an idea. She was an abstract thing I wanted, a thing that I already had , really, if I could keep it.
~ Andrew Martin
A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it.
~ Andrew Mayne
A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding
~ Andrew Mayne
Nature doesn't know the concept of philosophy, Geralt of Rivia. The pathetic – ridiculous – attempts which people undertake to try to understand nature are typically termed philosophy. The results of such attempts are also considered philosophy.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski