Quotes with concept

  • Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
  • Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
  • Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
  • Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Albert Einstein Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Kate Millet However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Paul E. Little Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, ''Now cut that out!'' That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Bronson Pinchot 'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.
    Bronson Pinchot
    American actor (1959 - )
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman A concept is stronger than a fact.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Tennessee Williams All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Billy Graham America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Benazir Bhutto America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Bertrand Russell Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
    Logical and Philosophical Papers, 1909-13
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Brad Feld Ever since I learned about the concept of garbage collection in 6.001 at MIT in 1984 while using Scheme on HP Chipmunks, I've always thought of dreaming as the same as garbage collection for a computer.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Brenda Brathwaite From initial concept to final build, 'Train' was close to a year in development. Much of this was research and letting the dynamics of the project come to the surface.
    Brenda Brathwaite
    American game designer
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  • Eric Hoffer Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • John Lennon God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Bono God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Caroline Knapp Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Stephen R. Covey I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Albert Einstein I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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