Concepts Quotes - Page 11

• Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may be more than half done.

  Israel Nathan Herstein

  Jobs, Discovery, Done

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• You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Passion, Careers

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• The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying. Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.

  Adyashanti

  Thinking, Self, Knowing

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• Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can and does mean only one thing: a promise to enslave the men who produce, for the benefit of those who don’t.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Rights

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• Time travel is such a magic concept.

  Matt Smith

  Magic, Time Travel

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

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• Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Infinite, Mathematical

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.170, Penguin

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• We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Thinking, Definitions, Way

  Yitzhak Rabin, Efraim Inbar, Merkaz Besa le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim (1996). “Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue”

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• Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

  Bruce Lee

  Should, Conceptualization

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.44, Tuttle Publishing

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• Without question, love in its various permutations is what we need more of in this world. The idea that the concept of marriage will be sullied by same-sex marriage is ridiculous. Heterosexuals haven't been doing that well at it on their own.

  Hugh Hefner

  Sex, Ideas, Needs

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• Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate. In this respect there was in the past a change of mentality, in which the law and the need for punishment were obscured. Ultimately this also narrowed the concept of law, which in fact is not only just being nice or courteous, but is found in the truth. And another component of the truth is that I must punish the one who has sinned against real love

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Real, Nice, Past

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• My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

  Tammy Bruce

  Honesty, Political, Understanding

  "On being out, proud and conservative". www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2010.

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• Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Problem, Realizing, Programming

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.40, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.

  Jerome Bruner

  Self, Effort, Doe

  Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them...It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• Growth is a funny sort of concept. For example, our GNP increases every time we build a prison. Well, okay, it's growth in a sense.

  Noam Chomsky

  Growth, Example, Prison

  Interview with Jerry Brown, www.wtp.org. August 5, 1993.

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• Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.

  Bruce Lee

  Roles, Wasting Time

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.177, Tuttle Publishing

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• Do I believe in the concept of Zero Harm? Let's just say I believe that nothing is impossible

  Dave Collins

  Zero, Believe, Safety

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• The average man. The emergence of the concept.

  Adolphe Quetelet

  Men, Average, Emergence

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• Only love for the Supreme Lord is true Bhakti. Love for any other being, however great, is not Bhakti. The "Supreme Lord" here means Ishvara, the concept of which transcends what you in the West mean by the personal God. "He from whom this universe proceeds, in whom it rests, and to whom it returns, He is Ishvara, the Eternal, the Pure, the All-Merciful, the Almighty, the Ever-Free, the All-Knowing, the Teacher of all teachers, the Lord who of His own nature is inexpressible Love."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Mean, Knowing

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3193, Manonmani Publishers

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• "I do not believe that Jesus, at the end of his earthly sojourn, returned to God by ascending in any literal sense into a heaven located somewhere in the sky. My knowledge of the size of this universe reduces that concept to nonsense."

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Believe, Sky

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• Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed.

  Roy Orbison

  Dream, Blue, Emotion

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• We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Work, Blue, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 7, 2006.

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• It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

  Wendell Berry

  Agriculture, Understanding, Agribusiness

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.71, Counterpoint

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• Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

  Ted Koppel

  Motivational, Sight, Goal

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• The concept (of happiness) is universal. In Buddhism, it is called causeless joy, in Christianity, the kingdom of heaven within, and in Judaism it is called ashrei, an inner sense of holiness and health. Is Islam it is called falah, happiness and well-being, and in Hinduism it is called ananda, or pure bliss.

  Marci Shimoff

  Happiness, Buddhism, Joy

  Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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