Quotes About Concept

I have made many life decisions that were strictly survival-driven, but never wealth-driven. In selling to private equity, I was motivated by a desire to develop an idea, a concept, a philosophy that was solid in its foundation into a global phenomenon to elevate the world.

Intuition is knowing through direct inner perception. This wisdom or knowingness must be translated or stepped down into concepts, principles, and words. This manifests as the ajna chakra or understanding. Knowing something through intuition requires only seconds or minutes. But translating intuition into understanding, manifesting as concepts, principles, and words may take weeks, months or years.

before Isaac Newton, billions of people had seen apples or objects fall to the ground. But it was Isaac Newton who formulated the Law of Gravity. In ancient India, hundreds of millions or billions of grandmothers healed their grandchildren with branches or brooms, but they did not understand the principle behind what they were doing. It was necessary for MCKS to explain and put emphasis on the very important concept of diseased energy.

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.

The history of any scientific concept—energy, atom, gene, cancer, memory—is one of increased differentiation and sophistication until it can be explained in a quantitative and mechanistic manner at a lower, more elemental level.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

Collectively they were an embodiment of Cool Britannia before the concept had even had a name. And this set of parents certainly is one body—it's impossible to speak to any of them individually. Group communication or deafening silence . . . your choice. Harriet can see why the other parents don't bother with the PPA.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

Drawing is putting a line round an idea.

World order describes the concept held by a region or civilization about the nature of just arrangements and the distribution of power thought to be applicable to the entire world.

E veio demonstrar como mudanças internas podem abalar o equilíbrio internacional mais profundamente do que uma agressão externa – uma lição que seria aplicada pelas revoluções do século XX, muitas das quais beberam explicitamente dos conceitos originalmente avançados pela Revolução Francesa.

É a pureza, e não a estabilidade, o princípio fundador desta conceção de ordem mundial.

Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition

Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words that have a still less clear meaning and therefore can easily be plugged into any theory.

The idea is more horny on paper than in practice.

The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose to continue to wage a hopeless war to preserve the existing architecture for copyright by upping the stakes and using better weapons to make sure that people respect it. If we do this, public support for copyright will continue to weaken, pushing creativity underground and producing a generation that is alienated from the copyright concept.

The working concept of God for most ordinary Christians is - if one may venture a bold guess- shaped more by the combination of Greek philosophy and Islamic theology that was powerfully injected into the thought of Christendom at the beginning of the High Middle Ages than by the thought of the fathers of the first four centuries.

I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it's just a very real thing in our country and culture.

When an athlete doesn't stretch before a competition, his risk of injury increases dramatically. If your concept of work is rigid, you, too, are much more likely to get hurt. Stretch your concept of work. As your last "To Do" for each day, include this one: Whatever it takes.

That idea of time cannot be located in space, though it has endless spatial manifestations, both physical and symbolic.

As I showed earlier, the idea of time is more important than any physical instrument invented for recording time;

The urge to push the concept of sex and sexuality into the fringes of the human experience is so bizarre to me.

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.