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Quotes About Concept

Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. Beautiful in the concept, if we're lucky, but frequently tedious or regrettable as we flesh ourselves out.
~ Gregory Maguire
The term stress has effectively become an umbrella concept, which gives us permission to call any kind of discomfort that we don't know how to define in other terms stress, be it physical, emotional or mental. Pretty much everything can become stress, or stressful, without any further evidence being presented.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
For Guardiola, tactical concepts are taken in if the players have the right attitude and understand what they are doing.
~ Guillem Balagué
In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.
~ Guillermo del Toro
En la literatura la salud tiene un concepto distinto al tradicional. Para que una obra posea cierta salud espiritual el escritor tendria que estar podrido por dentro.
~ Guillermo Fadanelli
The conception of property has experienced a fundamental change. The individualistic conception of the State - a result of the liberal spirit- must give way to the concept that communal welfare precedes individual welfare.
~ Gunter Reimann
esas consistentes mayorías desprovistas que pueden uniformarse en la palabra "pueblo", un concepto vacío pero de extraordinarias resonancias emotivas, justicieras, solidarias.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
This is still the legacy of Euclidean geometry, where space has three dimensions, a plane has two, a line has one, and a point has zero.
~ James Gleick
Information is entropy. This was the strangest and most powerful notion of all.
~ James Gleick
In the summer of 1913, Kafka bangs endlessly on about 'necessity,' that favorite concept of every German since Hegel who ever planned to do something morally dubious.
~ James Hawes
Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.
~ James Joyce
Unsheathe your dagger definitions; Horseness is the Whatness of All Horse...
~ James Joyce
But can those have been possible seeing that they never were? Or was that only possible which came to pass?
~ James Joyce
It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don't think that's a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.
~ James Patterson
The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
~ Felix Adler
With each concept, we change it up completely and the styles have been so diverse. For 'Boy in Luv,' we wore school uniforms. For 'Blood, Sweat & Tears,' it was a range of suits and white shirts.
~ Kim Tae-hyung
That's one of the hardest parts of putting together an album - finding that concept, that unifying idea. Especially as I write mostly in instrumental music, the idea of having a central concept that unifies the music is very important to me.
~ Johann Johannsson
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
~ Bertrand Russell
I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.
~ Lech Walesa
But the European Union does not have a concept of national identity. It was set up to abolish that idea, not to abolish German national identity because that was trying to save itself.
~ Roger Scruton
Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.
~ Jim DeMint
Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.
~ Jared Diamond
It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
~ Victor Vasarely
It's striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the food, the music, the staff. From the beginning to the end, with all these different elements, it tells a full story that you know very well how to develop and cultivate.
~ Alain Ducasse