Concepts Quotes - Page 27

• We have a funny concept of time in this culture. We revere it as we revere money, yet we rarely spend any of it on ourselves. We complain that we can't make what time we have go around, yet day after day we spend our allotment doing things we don't really want to be doing.

  Jan Phillips

  Time, Complaining, Culture

  Jan Phillips (2012). “Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity”, p.5, Quest Books

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• When a concept has been understood intellectually, if the learning is to be of value then a connection with personal feelings, inner knowing and experience has to be made, and consideration of how the information would best be applied.

  Peter Shepherd

  Wisdom, Knowing, Feelings

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• I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't even exist in our current language. I have subsequently read the accounts of other people's near-death experiences and their portrayals of heaven and I am able to see the same limitations in their descriptions and vocabulary that I see in my own.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

  James Hunter

  War, Top Down, Pyramids

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.56, Crown Business

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• The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

  Education, Philosophy, Heart

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1992). “On Growth and Form”, p.326, Cambridge University Press

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• I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind of man. It is not a property of the universe. Rationality may be a useful tool when it suits our purposes, however, it is merely a measuring stick, calibrated against what we know of the nature of the universe - all of which may or may not be completely inaccurate.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Men, Mind

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• "Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.

  Bill McKibben

  Future, Two, People

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• Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Future, Decision, Joy

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• While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance. Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought. Instead of saying 'I know this', we ought to say 'I more or less know something more or less like this'. ... Knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Real, Different, Alternatives

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• Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

  Yelawolf

  Pride, Feelings, Albums

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• The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Laughter, Philosophy, Real

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• When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Giving Up, Fall

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.58, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, Facts, Leafs

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• Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man's vanity to be loathsome.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Men, Vanity

  "Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs". Book by Hans Arp, p. 315, 1966.

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• One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Sorry, Mean, People

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• I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

  Erich Fromm

  Thinking, People, Heaven

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• At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

  Steve Almond

  Summer, School, Clothes

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.21, Algonquin Books

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• The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.

  John Steinbeck

  Order, Oneness, Unity

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.118, Penguin

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• Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've attained it. We can recognize it more readily in others than we can in ourselves. We have to discover our own definition of it.

  Twyla Tharp

  May, Definitions, Mastery

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Pieces, Amusement, Kind

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• Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.

  Sidney Jourard

  Self, People, World

  SIDNEY M. JOURARD (1968). “DISCLOSING MAN TO HIMSELF”

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• You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking Is this true for me?

  Brian Tracy

  Ideas, Judging, Asking

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• Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Self, Mind, Patterns

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Universal Laws of Success”, p.7, Jaico Publishing House

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• We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

  Earl Warren

  Diversity, Gains, Bitter

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