Quotes About Concept

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics

understanding a statement must begin with an attempt to believe it: you must first know what the idea would mean if it were true.

Risk" does not exist "out there," independent of our minds and culture, waiting to be measured. Human beings have invented the concept of "risk" to help them understand and cope with the dangers and uncertainties of life.

Time is not an object but an abstraction, hence it does not lend itself to imagery

people need to rethink the concept of work.

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

scholars tell us that there was no word in ancient Latin or Greek for "self" as it is understood in contemporary usage.

The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.

The only thing worse than a bad idea that gets implemented is a good one that is never broached.

God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

We should begin thinking of events as the primary realities and of time as an abstraction from them—a concept derived mainly from regular repeating events, such as the ticking of clocks. Events are perceived, but time is not (Gibson, 1975).

Ten million years, Earthman . . . can you conceive of that kind of time span? A galactic civilization could grow from a single worm five times over in that time. Gone.' He paused.

Resumo dos últimos capítulos: No início, o Universo foi criado. Isso irritou profundamente muitas pessoas e, no geral, foi encarado como uma péssima ideia.

The freedom that's discovered isn't, "I have attained enlightenment." The freedom is, "My God, there is nobody here to be enlightened. Therefore, there is nobody there to be unenlightened." That's the light. Only the concept "me" thinks it needs enlightenment, freedom, liberation, and emancipation. It thinks it needs to find God or get a Ferrari—it's all the same thing when you get right down to it.

I wouldn't go so far as to say I've got a plan. But I've got an idea. It's a very useful thing sometimes, an idea. - Superintendent Battle

It's a very useful thing sometimes, an idea.

De taal is een instrument in handen van de gedachte, je moet je helder en exact uitdrukken.

Marriage, as a human institution, depends on the concept of first being better than best. And so does business.

Positioning is an organized system for finding a window in the mind. It is based on the concept that communication can only take place at the right time and under the right circumstances.

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

MODESTY IS NOT ABOUT being covered up, but about awareness of a private life and of personal dignity. Today this concept of private dignity does not exist. As a result, everything is flaunted, everything is public. —RABBI YAAKOV WEINBERG (1923–1999)