Concepts Quotes - Page 28

• Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Dark

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Linda L. McAlister, Margarete Schättle (2007). “Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben”, Univ of California Press

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• No one can stop or control your thought process or your thinking. You can think anything you want. But that doesn't seem to be the point. The thinking process has to be directed into a certain approach... not in accord with certain dogma, philosophy, or concepts. Instead, one has to know the thinker itself.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Philosophy, Thinking, Want

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings”, p.150, Shambhala Publications

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• Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different

  Werner Heisenberg

  Character, Two, Different

  Werner Heisenberg (2013). “The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Numbers, Quality

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• It's kind of a unique concept, but it's totally real, isn't it? ... I mean, these paramedics put themselves in incredibly stressful situations, are killing themselves to save our lives and they're not really regarded or appreciated.

  Nicolas Cage

  Real, Mean, Unique

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• Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Done, Structure, My Own

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• Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  May, Matter, Humans

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• I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept.

  Greg Kinnear

  Crazy, Character, Giving

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• We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Real, Pride, Worry

  Jeffrey Kluger (2007). “Simplexity: the simple rules of a complex world”

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• A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".

  Alva Myrdal

  Balance, Has Beens, Written

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.

  Ernst Mayr

  Understanding, Definitions, Difficult

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.45, Harvard University Press

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• Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

  Ernst Mayr

  Progress, Society, Development

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.43, Harvard University Press

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• Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Psychology, Understanding, Technique

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• For the fee of $10,000, anyone could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human to kill. The concept made me nauseous. But it also felt real, and rang bells with my more cynical side.

  Eli Roth

  Real, Gun, Cynical

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• But it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child. Indeed, if we were to start judging parents on the basis of their political beliefs, we would change the concept of family for the rest of time.

  Janet Reno

  Children, Father, Judging

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• I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don't think that I was that literal.

  Vera Wang

  Latin, Struggle, Thinking

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• The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?

  Donny Deutsch

  Success, Keys, Why Not

  Donny Deutsch, Peter Knobler (2009). “Often Wrong, Never in Doubt: Unleash the Business Rebel Within”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Thinking

  Lecture trans. Craig Holdrege, August 30, 1921.

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• I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly dangerous criminals and terrorists to trump the rights of the people of Britain to live in security and peace.

  David Cameron

  Believe, Rights, People

  "Balancing freedom and security - a modern British Bill of Rights". www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2006.

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• That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories.

  Joseph Roth

  Accessories, Furniture, Found

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• We have, without any fanfare or much conversation, moved into a era in which news organizations are expected to explain themselves. Twenty years ago, it would not be expected that the New York Times would explain itself. The concept of what accountability.

  Alex Jones

  New York, Years, Organization

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• We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Identity, Revolution, Dimensions

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• All the money was spent for the 'Concept Plan' document, which made reasonable recommendations for developments. Now that's kind of being forgotten. That's why I think the public trust is being betrayed.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Betrayal, Thinking, Development

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• Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

  Adyashanti

  Freedom, Ideas, People

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• I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride.

  Paul Lester Wiener

  Success, Jobs, Ignorance

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