Quotes About Concept

I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles.

I always find the idea of Britishness a bit of a boring old concept, to be honest. That world of Britishness always comes off a bit twee and only about cream teas and that sort of things.

Maybe the trouble is that the shape of life is elastic, that it can feel and be full at variable levels of fullness. Or maybe we're poor judges of our own lives' fullness. Or maybe the concepts of emptiness and fullness are poor metaphors for happiness, if in fact happiness is what we're talking about. ?

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.

Good general theory does not search for the maximum generality, but for the right generality.

an idea is a combination of other ideas.

All the things we experience in life can be separated into two realms, the realm of the concept and the realm of the senses.

I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation of the idea of the thing - the space between the two.

So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.

Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions.

The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.

There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.

One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.

The overall concept comes first and then that informs the product, the shoot and how we communicate it. Everything comes back to the concept. It all gets thought about at the same time.

A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

I feel like the high-concept shows that have some kind of gimmick tend not to be the hit classic shows of all time.

Time is a person-made concept.

when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions lift their heads, it's hard to tell the air from the impurities in our human eyes, as if the sinking climbing paisley curlicues of grit were part of the element itself, rain, spores, tears, film, dirt. Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more then the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.