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Quotes About Concept

People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.
~ Victor LaValle
There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money, it doesn't make it good. If it's good, it's good.
~ No I.D.
I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.
~ Jonathan Lethem
The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work
~ Sol LeWitt
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
~ Kamala Harris
The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
~ Madame de Stael
We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty.
~ Evo Morales
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.
~ Damien Hirst
'E.T.' depended absolutely on the concept of cinema, and I think that Steven Spielberg, who I'm very fond of, is a genius.
~ Richard Attenborough
The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
~ Bono
Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.
~ Tyler, The Creator
Another concept was that there were infinite Hubble volumes, each a universe—a number given the name googolplex—and that the similar alternate Earth they could see was so far away that it would take longer than the age of our universe to write that distance down. Both incredible ideas and, for Jonah, both beautiful.
~ Tim Lebbon
Human health depends above all on sound nutrition; sound nutrition means growing food and using it in accordance with nature's laws; of all foods made "unnatural" by industrial processing the commonest are refined sugar, refined flour and certain processed vegetable oils. I know of no research that refutes this simple concept.' – Dr Walter Yellowlees, A Doctor in the Wilderness
~ Tim Noakes
The concept of lifestyle design as a replacement for multi-staged career planning is sound.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?
~ Timothy Ferriss
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Not all taste buds are located on the tongue. Some are found on the roof of the mouth and in the throat.… Taste receptors are also found in the lining of the intestine, suggesting that our concept of the sense of taste should include these chemical-sensing systems.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Y en qué consiste el estudio emocional de una idea?
~ Timothy Ferriss
there certainly are philosophers who take seriously the question of whether numbers exist, and this distinguishes them from mathematicians, who either find it obvious that numbers exist or do not understand what is being asked.
~ Timothy Gowers
the second derivative conveys just the idea we want—a comparison between the value at x and the average value near x. It is worth noting that if f is linear, then the average of f(x - h) and f(x + h) will be equal to f(x), which fits with the familiar fact that the second derivative of a linear function f is zero.
~ Timothy Gowers
A3 0 is an additive identity: 0 + a = a for any number a. That is all you need to know about 0. Not what it means – just a little rule that tells you what it does.
~ Timothy Gowers
A planetary vision of bloody racial struggle, something not inherently attractive to most people most of the time, was translated at moments of stress into concepts and images that could generate political support.
~ Timothy Snyder