Concepts Quotes - Page 13

• We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.

  R. C. Sproul

  Running, Desire, Theology

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Chosen by God”, p.10, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Emotional, Perception, Cinema

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 176), 1986.

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  My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Dream, Inspiration, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Life, Secret

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

  Thomas Friedman

  Winning, People, Insecurity

  "Read My Lips". "New York Times", June 11, 2002.

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• The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit. The more inflation progresses, the higher rises the national income.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Progress, Income, Making Money

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• Knowledge, in so far as it is directed to practical matters, has only to enumerate the principal possible attitudes of the thing towards us, as well as our best possible attitude towards it. Therein lies the ordinary function of ready-made concepts, those stations with which we mark out the path of becoming. But to seek to penetrate with them into the inmost nature of things, is to apply to the mobility of the real a method created in order to give stationary points of observation on it.

  Henri Bergson

  Nature, Real, Order

  "An Introduction to Metaphysics".

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• Devotion is not a concept, not a certain kind of ideology, not a certain kind of act, it is the agent of dissolution.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Agents, Divinity

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• It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Battle, Engagement, Sovereign

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• Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

  Joyce Brothers

  Stars, Want, Fool

  "The Successful Woman : How You Can Have a Career, a Husband, and a Family - and Not Feel Guilty About It" by Joyce Brothers, (p. 18), 1988.

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• As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.

  Michael Crichton

  Ordinary, Exotic, Consciousness

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• If we’re going to strive for spiritual growth, we have to be willing to put concepts into practice in our everyday lives, in all relationships with all people. You can’t separate your “spiritual life” from your “work life.” They’re both your life! In the same vein, you can’t separate money and happiness.

  T. Harv Eker

  Spiritual, Practice, People

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• Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

  E. O. Wilson

  Intuition, Important, Form

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• Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Understanding, Sublime, Reason

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• Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.

  Sam Storms

  Mirrors, Self, Looking In The Mirror

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• Not only is it a great concept and a great idea -- helping people -- it's good pizza too!

  Matt Lauer

  Ideas, People, Helping

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• When the concept of human spirit is understood as the mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the Cosmos as a whole, it becomes clear that ecological awareness is spiritual in its deepest sense.

  Fritjof Capra

  Spiritual, Cosmos, Consciousness

  Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (2014). “The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Artist, Long, Doing You

  "Trying to Capture the Invisible". Interview with Anne Simpkinson, www.beliefnet.com. December 2001.

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• A gastronomer who is not an environmentalis t is just stupid. Whereas an environmentalis t who is not a gastronomer is sad. It's possible to change the world even while preserving the concept of the right of pleasure.

  Carlo Petrini

  Inspirational, Change, Sad

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• Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.

  John Stott

  Lying, Heart, Essence

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• The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Art, Giving, Trying

  "Godard". Book by Richard Roud, 1970.

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• The initial sketch is always an emotion, not a concept.

  Samuel

  Emotion, Initials

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• Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.

  Xenobia Bailey

  Cycle Of Life, Imagination, Unending

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• The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time…To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing information-rich inputs simultaneously…Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

  John Medina

  Errors, Brain, Tasks

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• Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Wealth, Authority

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “On Anarchism”, p.139, New Press, The

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