Concepts Quotes - Page 17

• Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We fare no better in our speculations than a fish which should strive to become clear as to what is water.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophy, Math, Water

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• It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of similar universes... Familiarity with these mighty concepts most certainly does not breed contempt, does not dull our awe at the mightiness of the universe in which we play so small a part. It is very doubtful if any of those who are seriously studying the heavens ever lose their feeling of reverence for this supremely wonderful universe and for Whoever or Whatever must be behind it all.

  Heber Doust Curtis

  Play, Space, Heaven

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• The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Math, Men, Numbers

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• All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Party, Technique

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Men, Progress

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• For a period of time, I carried cameras with me wherever I went, and then I realized that my interest in photography was turning toward the conceptual. So I wasn't carrying around cameras shooting stuff, I was developing concepts about what I wanted to shoot. And then I'd get the camera angle and do the job

  Leonard Nimoy

  Photography, Jobs, Inspiration

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, tv.avclub.com. July 28, 2010.

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• Attitude is an inner concept. It is the most important thing you can develop in your life.

  Wayne Dyer

  Sports, Attitude, Important

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• Here's a memonic device that I feel teaches how we can properly cope with failure. Forget about your failures; don't dwell on past mistakes Anticipate failure; realize that we all make mistakes. Intensity in everything you do; never be a failure for lack of effort. Learn from your mistakes; don't repeat previous errors. Understand why you failed; diagnose your mistakes so as to not repeat them. Respond, don't react to errors; responding corrects mistakes while reacting magnifies them. Elevate your self-concept. It's OK to fail, everyone does; now how are you going to deal with the failure

  Steve Largent

  Leadership, Sports, Mistake

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• The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown or locally produced food into one's nutrition plan, is of great importance

  Tyler Florence

  Nutrition, Importance, Plans

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• Learning astrology is like learning any foreign language. You already have the ideas, concepts, and experiences of your life within you; you are just learning a new language for what you are already experiencing.

  Barbara Goldsmith

  Ideas, Astrology, Language

  Barbara Goldsmith (2008). “Astrology Made Easy: A Handy Reference Guide”, p.1, Barbara Goldsmith

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• Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life in much the same way as we all identify with music or speech.

  Scott Schuman

  Mean, Expression, Style

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• The MOST important concept in achieving a BIG goal is to 'Powerfully Believe in Yourself!' If you have that, who can stop you?

  Shawn Anderson

  Believe, Goal, Important

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• A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity. It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product.

  Al Ries

  Successful, Perception, Mind

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• We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts lies the reality which is being revealed to us, but only by the grace of God.

  Wernher von Braun

  Lying, Reality, Men

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• Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message: Is this person happy? Angry? Fearful? Individual faces may vary greatly, but a smirk on one is a lot like a smirk on another. Smirks are conceptual, not pictorial. Our brains are like cartoonists - and cartoonists are like our brains, simplifying and exaggerating, subordinating facial detail to abstract comic concepts.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Brain, Essentials, Details

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other
  problem will solve itself.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Firsts, Problem, Existence

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.

  Evo Morales

  Believe, Cost, Environment

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• If you flip a coin three times and it lands on heads each time, it’s probably chance. If you flip it a hundred times and it lands on heads each time, you can be pretty sure the coin has heads on both sides. That’s the concept behind statistical significance—it’s the odds that the correlation (or other finding) is real, that it isn’t just random chance.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Real, Odds, Land

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.40, BenBella Books

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• This is a big surprise I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me.

  Banksy

  Men, Awards, House

  "Banksy Request to Appear at the Oscars in Disguise Rejected" by Stuart Kemp, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 21, 2011.

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• Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

  Brad Warner

  Real, Rewards, Doers

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• We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Mean, Goes On, Knows

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

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• Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Moon, Men, Moral

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

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• When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Men, Space, Use

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

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• I don't cook 'concepts.' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.

  Marcella Hazan

  Heart, Use, Flavor

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• (The terms douloi, banausoi and aristoi) are in a way more precise, but what is more vital and valuable, they are more comprehensive: they project a concept of psychic order that embraces entire fields that we have no other way of seeing all together as the working of a single principle. If we think of the human domain as the collaboration and the conflict of these three diverse character-types, we can understand the weave and the stress and polemics of their very different basal teleologies or ultimate governing purposes of life.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Stress, Character

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