Quotes About Concept

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

When you look at the growth of the human economy and its expected growth in the twenty-first century, I expect health will be the most important market of all. Especially as we move from a concept of health which focuses on healing the sick to a concept of upgrading the healthy.

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

In the minds of the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of the citizen that defined the state, rather than the other way round.

And in this way was born the concept, central to all mathematics and science, of proof.

If God's love is absolutely different from the highest and best notions of love as we derive them from Scripture itself (especially from Jesus Christ), then the term is simply meaningless when attached to God. One might as well say "God is creech-creech"—a meaningless assertion.

The very concept of "ethnocentrism," which is used like a sledge-hammer to disparage the West, is a Western invention.

The algorithm has some kind of disembodied 'existence' which is quite apart from any realization of that algorithm in physical terms.

I can understand the concept of the "reluctant reader," but for me it's akin to saying somebody really doesn't like to eat. Or breathe.

Un mundo de cualidades inversas, porque este universo es estable y real. Sócrates comprendió que este mundo de la verdad está al alcance del hombre a través del pensamiento. Él mostró el camino. Platón recordó la lección y la desarrolló: la vía para llegar a la verdad pasa por los conceptos.

El filósofo transforma los planteamientos iniciales relativos al concepto, y afirma la existencia de un «mundo de las ideas», que es modelo del mundo real. Este mundo es para Platón mucho más real que el que habitualmente llamamos «realidad». El mundo de las ideas es incluso, por así decir, el único mundo real.

Si percibimos cosas cuadradas es porque juzgamos que sus figuras corresponden a esta «forma» de la que tenemos conocimiento (en griego antiguo, «forma» se dice eidos, palabra de la que deriva nuestro vocablo «idea»).

The idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.

Socrates' demonstration of the defect in the officers' concept of courage has some important implications. A commander who believed that ordering a retreat was cowardly would be severely constrained in his options; one who had a broader definition would have more tactical choices.

If you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

a nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.