Abstract Quotes - Page 6

• The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Science, Chaos

  William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

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• At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entrusted the deceased with their hearts.

  Jon Krakauer

  Heart, Appreciate, Youth

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

  John Green

  Representation

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.103, Penguin

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• All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Principles

  Paul Feyerabend, Paul K. Feyerabend (1987). “Farewell to Reason”, p.299, Verso

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• That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about. You may have an idea, but you cant be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings. Is it a stand-in ―a symbol for another idea? Does it fit into a larger, more hidden, metaphor? ...I hated poetry until someone showed me how to appreciate it. He told me to see poetry as a puzzle. Its up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

  Jay Asher

  Talking, Ideas, Appreciate

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• -- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Thinking, People, Guarding

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “The Visible Man: A Novel”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Understanding, Intellectual

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• But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

  John Green

  Clever, Drawing, Said

  "Fictional characters: Frannie, Hazel Grace Lancaster". The Fault in Our Stars, www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings.

  Jay Asher

  Talking, Ideas, Different

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.175, Penguin

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• Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from memory, as the fear and the necessity became abstract. And only her own actions stood out with crystal clarity.

  Michael Grant

  Memories, Fear, Guilt

  Michael Grant (2012). “Fear”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest of the brain that this is as real as a physical stressor.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Real, Thinking, Brain

  Robert M. Sapolsky (2004). “Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated”, p.286, Macmillan

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• His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said.

  Rachel Caine

  Hungry, Yeah, Said

  Rachel Caine (2007). “Midnight Alley: The Morganville Vampires”, p.153, Penguin

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• All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Time, Sophisticated, Mortality

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.653, Penguin

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• If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer's character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist's presence.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Beautiful, Dance, Integrity

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• Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

  Herb Ritts

  Light, Two, Shadow

  Herb Ritts, Paul Martineau, James Crump (2012). “Herb Ritts: L.A. Style”, p.3, Getty Publications

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• Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

  Julie Taymor

  Film, Theater, Superiors

  "Transforming the World through Art". Academy of Achievement Interview, June 3, 2006.

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• I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

  Henry Flynt

  Artist, Avant Garde, Students

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• The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Life, Individualism, Mathematics

  Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

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• Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Creeds, Institutions, Judaism

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• What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Principles, Goes On

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• It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

  Atom Egoyan

  Television, Moments, Turns

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

  Don DeLillo

  Thinking, Jazz, Influence

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

  Max Beckmann

  Real, Mean, Enough Already

  Max Beckmann (2013). “On My Painting - Max Beckmann”, p.8, Tate Enterprises Ltd

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• When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Principles, Conformity, Conform

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• I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

  George Lucas

  Emotional, Film, Wanted

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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