Concepts Quotes - Page 23

• No 'mise en scène' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en scène' turns into a sign, a cliché, a concept however original it may be, then the whole thing - characters, situation, psychology - become schematic and false.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Character, Two, Personality

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• To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed that is, the concept of length involves as much as and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Determined, Length, Operations

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• It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Beautiful, Science, Etc

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• Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Philosophy, Science, Technology

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• The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from the rest of the world. Nevertheless it completes the mathematician's "blank form of a universe" without which his investigations are impossible. It enables him to introduce into his geometrical space, not only masses and configurations, but also physical structure and chemical composition. Just as Newton first conclusively showed that this is a world of masses, so Willard Gibbs first revealed it as a world of systems.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Independent, Science, Space

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• This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Reflection, Vocabulary, Doe

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.106, Routledge

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• Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive at a false concreteness - a concreteness isolated from the conditions which constitute its reality. In this context, the operational treatment of the concept assumes a political function. The individual and his behavior are analyzed in a therapeutic sense - adjustment to his society. Thought and expression, theory and practice are to be brought in line with the facts of his existence without leaving room for the conceptual critique of these facts.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Reality, Expression, Practice

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• Health is not, in the minds of most people, a unitary concept. It is multi-dimensional, and it is quite possible to have 'good' health in one respect, but 'bad' in another.

  Mildred Blaxter

  Health, People, Mind

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• As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual has become adapted; and almost everything is unnatural outside his range of adaptation. Harmonious equilibrium with nature is an abstract concept with a Platonic beauty but lacking the flesh and blood of life. It fails, in particular, to convey the creative emergent quality of human existence.

  Rene Dubos

  Life, Home, Blood

  René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.28, Rutgers University Press

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• The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.

  Laozi

  Wise, Block, Names

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• The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

  Joyce Cary

  Real, Knowing Who You Are, Labels

  Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”

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• If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don't think there's any harm in that at all.

  Jane Campion

  Thinking, Ideas, Phrases

  "Anna Makes It a Family Business / Jane Campion's sister's debut film is `Loaded'" by Mick La Salle, www.sfgate.com. April 17, 1996.

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• Truth is a big concept.

  Lukas Foss

  Truth Is, Bigs

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• I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future.

  Perry Farrell

  Ideas, Always Working

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2007.

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• I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.'

  Ryan Hurst

  Independent, Thinking, Car

  "Kim Coates, Ryan Hurst and Theo Rossi Talks SONS OF ANARCHY and Where Their Characters Are in Season 5". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 24, 2012.

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• Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

  Edmund Husserl

  Individual, Contrast, Objects

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used.

  Eric Holder

  Justice, Tactics, Execution

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• We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

  Kamala Harris

  California, Justice, Age

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• The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

  Taylor Hackford

  Devil, Levels, Metaphor

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

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• In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it.

  Eugene Jarvis

  Fun, Games, Play

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• The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.

  Lara St. John

  And Love, Pieces, Made

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• Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Philosophy, Important

  Phillip E. Johnson (2000). “Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture”, Intervarsity Press

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• I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Song, Writing, Should

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• Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

  Bob Kane

  Unique, Ideas, Imagination

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• Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

  Caroline Knapp

  Lost, Alas, Merry

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