Quotes About Concept

Benedict's spending down his energy was a function of his fighting against the Space/Information Age's relentless pressure on the concept of hierarchy, the restoration of which he had, following John Paul II, made a central part of the program that has come to be known as the reform of the reform.

There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying battles to change paradigms.

I have said that I am in favor of personhood as a concept. I am not taking a position on any of the state amendments, and I have said over and over again - and it has been reported over and over again - that I am not in favor of banning any common forms of birth control in Colorado or in the United States.

I've always prided myself on embracing the concept that almost no-one is indispensible, certainly not a news reporter.

Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

Ideas are the root of creation.

We need a very robust way of looking at people coming into the country... We're focused on the whole concept of the ideology and of the vetting.

Sometimes when something doesn't go the way it should go, everyone blames the concept. Sometimes we screw up the way we implement it.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

I think 'Inception' was a sick idea, but they didn't do it correctly.

Jurisprudential law is sham law: to ascribe stability to this creature of the imagination, is to ascribe stability to a shadow.

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

Divorce: such a spiteful-sounding word – but such an appealing concept. Marriage: such a softly seductive word – but such a spiteful reality.

Art actually happens somewhere in the space between clarity and ambiguity, concept and intuition, thought and feeling.

As we shall see, theories like those of Divine Right and Popular Sovereignty, which pass for opposites, stem in reality from the same trunk, the idea of sovereignty—the idea, that is, that somewhere there is a right to which all other rights must yield. It is not hard to discover behind this juridical concept a metaphysical one.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

Thinking about time travel may seem like something humans have been doing since the first caveman dropped the first rock on his foot. But, even to begin to imagine the possibility of time travel, your mind must be able to wrap itself around the notion of a past and a future.

I don't want to die. I can't wrap my head around the concept of death because I'm totally atheist. There's nothing after life in my head, whether that's right or wrong.