Quotes About Concept

In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness?

I learned that you shouldn't take your most esoteric concept and fit it into the largest space with the highest fixed costs. It puts too much pressure on the restaurant to hit grand slams every day when there just aren't enough people who want to watch that sport.

I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, 'Well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct.'

When you're putting together a concept album, it's all about the flow and the story.

I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows.

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

You don't need a high concept to make a great film, of course. 'Withnail & I' is not - it's probably not much on paper, but it's one of the funniest films ever made.

Canada will bring us power for the future, Scandinavia the character, the steadiness…It's the grand concept for survival…a union of know-how, that's us, with power and character.

A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept.

Then came the Butlerian Jihad—two generations of chaos. The god of machine-logic was overthrown among the masses and a new concept was raised: "Man may not be replaced." Those

De alguna manera, la decepción había hecho mucho más concreto el concepto del paraíso.

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws. No, it was a question of fairness, a concept that went much deeper. The people upon whom judgment was passed must feel the fairness of it.

plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept.

Le concept de progrès agit comme un mécanisme de protection destiné à nous isoler des terreurs de l'avenir.

Key log: a truly ancient concept from the days before suspensors when lumbermen sent their fallen timber rushing down rivers to central mill sites. Sometimes the logs jammed up in the river and an expert was brought in to find the one log, the key log, which would free the jam when removed.

An idea is salvation by imagination

I do not see the world at all; I invent it.

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgement by that name; in reality it is a constant court in perpetual session.

You can catch a scent in the wind - an idea, or a concept - and follow it. You can delve into your subconscious and see what happens, in a way you just can't when you're writing a novel.

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

We have entered an age where religious ideologies and nuclear technology coexist. This alone is a terrifying concept, plus the fact that humanity is like Icarus, flirting with how close we can get to the sun of technology before our wax wings melt.

I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.

A lot of my work is about text taken to the point of abstraction.

Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.