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Quotes About Concept

I became a kinesthetic person because I always overintellectualize. And feelings, for me, are a concept. Feelings? Ah yes, I've heard of those.
~ Nina Hartley
If a concept or principle finds its place in an explanatory theory, it cannot be excluded on methodological grounds.
~ Noam Chomsky
I've always believed that the concept of the Jewish princess was invented by a Jewish prince who couldn't get his wife to fetch him the butter.
~ Nora Ephron
This'll do it. Can you see Tereza and Maddy over there getting pedicures and arguing. Mmm, Sophia mused. They disagree about the name for the beauty products we don't even have yet. I don't know if it's Maddy or the concept, but it's boosted Nonna's morale.
~ Nora Roberts
The message of The Winner Takes It All is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy. One person is inevitably okay and the other is inevitably devastated.
~ Chuck Klosterman
The concept of "selling out"—and the degree to which that notion altered the meaning and perception of almost everything—is the single most nineties aspect of the nineties.
~ Chuck Klosterman
To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. Let the wind erase it. Then the letter X. Erase it. Then the letter W. Let the wind erase it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Parásito» no es la palabra adecuada, pero es la primera palabra que viene a la mente.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
it was a concept album from 1989 based off The Gunslinger by Stephen King—featuring songs like 'Different Seasons' and 'Mohaine Desert.
~ Chuck Wendig
Our day-to-day concepts do not capture what a concept is because they do not allow the full force of what a concept can do.
~ Claire Colebrook
I trade with you my mind.
~ Clifford D. Simak
All he felt now was envy. These people had expectations. Of the world, of the future, it didn't matter--expectation was such an innovative concept to him that he couldn't help but be a bit moved by what they were saying. Whatever that was.
~ Colson Whitehead
Hard to believe that reconstruction had progressed so far that clock-watching had returned, the slacker's code, the concept of weekend.
~ Colson Whitehead
I is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.
~ Virginia Woolf
Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me;
~ Vladimir Nabokov
reality" (one of the few words which mean nothing without quotes)
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.
~ Lara Flynn Boyle
A concept is an idea that has been evolved to the point where a story becomes possible. A concept becomes a platform, a stage, upon which a story may unfold. A concept, it could be said—and it should be viewed this way—is something that asks a question. The answer to the question is your story.
~ Larry Brooks
Nietzsche tells us that modern consciousness is sick: "Art is reduced to mere amusement, and governed by empty concepts.
~ Laurence Gane
Simplicity is a complex concept, but at the core is voluntary limitation of our outer wealth so that we can have greater inner wealth.
~ Cecile Andrews
Form was not born from an idea. It was an idea vanishing.
~ Cecilia Vicuña
We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's liberating. But we also know it's not an easy concept. -He's not just into you
~ Greg Behrendt
Understanding an idea meant entangling it so thoroughly with all the other symbols in your mind that it changed the way you thought about everything.
~ Greg Egan
Every instructor needs three things: content knowledge , such as how to program; general pedagogical knowledge , such as an understanding of the psychology of learning; and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), which is the domain-specific knowledge of how to teach a particular concept to a particular audience.
~ Greg Wilson