Quotes About Concept

Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being, a sort of "being" vs. having—that is, we do not "have" mind, we are simply mind. We are what we are.

The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling...

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L'inferno è un'idea nata originariamente da un pasticcio di mele mal digerito e da allora perpetuata attraverso le dispepsie ereditarie prodotte dai Ramadan.

hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling;

liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion

abstractions may be indispensable. But they don't accurately reflect reality.

The early-twentieth-century psychoanalytic thinker Carl Jung, says Kagan, originated the concept of introverted and extroverted personalities. Jung also believed that each had a slightly different brain structure.

My opinion is that the term "God" belongs to the realm of concepts, that it is dependent upon man for its existence. If God does not exist unless man exists, then man must be here to produce God. It

Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution

Entropy was a troubling and beautiful concept that lay at the heart of much human toil and sorrow. Everything, especially life, fell apart. Order was a boulder to be rolled uphill. The kitchen would not tidy itself.

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.

I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.

My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we've seen that done in fashion before - it's not a new concept - but it hasn't been done with the same vigour in a modern context.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it's not like that.

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

Occasionally, I hear grumbles about everything being a series or a trilogy, but apart from the question of them maybe selling more books, I think that there's a real problem in trying to introduce a new world or a new concept while also getting your reader to pay close attention to your characters and themes.

The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.

People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.