Quotes with concrete

  • The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
  • For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
  • Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

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  • W. Clement Stone I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Brit Morin Yeah, the majority of Brit+Co users are women, but DIY? You see kids DIY, adult men geeking out hardcore with anything related to woodworking and all these cool new technologies, metalwork, leatherworking, concrete making. Everyone has a passion. I truly believe it's in our DNA literally to build things.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Agnes Martin Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Bill Hybels Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Thomas Troward Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • A. R. Ammons For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Bill Buford Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don't visit - a council estate: a concrete bunker subsidized by the local government, synonymous with deprivation and blight.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Barry Sanders I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • William James No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • John Pierpont Morgan No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
    John Pierpont Morgan
    American banker, financer, art collector (1837 - 1913)
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  • Salman Rushdie Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Desmond Morris The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.
    Desmond Morris
    British zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter (1928 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Benjamin Graham The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. IV, A Plan For Conserving Surplus, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Arthur Scargill The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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