Concepts Quotes - Page 30

• The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.

  Cathy Davidson

  Order, Verbs, Nouns

  Cathy N. Davidson (2011). “Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21s t Century”, p.18, Penguin

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• This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.

  George F. R. Ellis

  Top Down, Keys, Brain

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• A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That’s the power of story.

  Marshall Ganz

  Teaching, Heart, Anxiety

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• It was hard for me to do the show (All-American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand the concept of Asian-American. I was on a morning show and the host said, "Awright, Margaret, we're changing over to an ABC affiliate! So why don't you tell our viewers in your native language that we're making that transition?" So I looked at the camera and said, "Um, they're changing over to an ABC affiliate."

  Margaret Cho

  Girl, Morning, Native Language

  "Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I Want". TV Special, August 4, 2000.

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• I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

  Samuel Wilson

  Physicians, Records, Medical

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• In principle, there’s nothing wrong with the concept of an infographic. What concerns me is the types of things that people are doing with them. They get far off topic, or the fact checking is really poor. The infographic may be neat, but if the information it’s based on is simply wrong, then it’s misleading people.

  Matt Cutts

  People, Principles, May

  "Matt Cutts and Eric Talk About What Makes a Quality Site". Interview with Eric Enge, www.stonetemple.com. July 9, 2012.

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• The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Thinking, Focus, Missing

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• Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.

  Stephen King

  People, Cost, Fiction

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

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• You can communicate to a new cybercity... This will be the ideal home server. Did you see the movie The Matrix? Same interface. Same concept. Starting from next year, you can jack into The Matrix!

  Ken Kutaragi

  Home, Years, Next

  "Newsweek Catches On to PS2". IGN Interview, www.ign.com. February 28, 2000.

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• The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Space, Vacuums, Modern

  Robert B. Laughlin (2008). “A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down”, p.100, Basic Books

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• To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.

  Criss Jami

  Pain, Ideas, Confusion

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• It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

  Criss Jami

  Flying, Over You, Doubt

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.9, Criss Jami

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• If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace - some people think that simply being nice and not harming others is morality; others think that following rules and tithing are morality. But without Christ, all moral beliefs ultimately boil down to the one sin which perpetually rails against the concept of grace: man's lawful, religious, and futile attempt at establishing his own righteousness.

  Criss Jami

  Religious, Nice, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.15, Criss Jami

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• Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

  Criss Jami

  Trying, Fool, Honest

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own train of thought and purpose in life. You have to die to an extent in your hunger for faith, for wisdom, and quite frankly, most people aren't ready to die.

  Criss Jami

  Train Of Thought, People, Feelings

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.64, Criss Jami

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• In an effort to reclaim our humanity, let us find new motivation for living by opening our minds to broader concepts of spirituality.

  Kevin Powell

  Motivation, Effort, Humanity

  Kevin Powell (2008). “The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fate, Two, Aphorism

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all Canadian" boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Girl, Hate, Boys

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1972). “Conversation with Canadians”

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• The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Horse, Distance, Men

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

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• I hate the concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable! And I hate the whole concept of comfort! It's like when people say, 'Well, we're not really in love, but we're in a comfortable relationship.' You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you are too into comfort. 'Comfy'-that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy. It's really depressing, but she likes her life because she has comfortable clogs.

  Christian Louboutin

  Depressing, Hate, Ideas

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• The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .

  Karl Marx

  Doe, Economic, Antiquity

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook VII, The Chapter on Capital, p. 696, 1857-1858.

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• Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I have never tried to project the Creator in any kind of human likeness. The vociferous debates about whether God is male or female seem ridiculous to me. I think of God as an omnipotent and omniscient presence, a spirit that permeates the universe, the essence of truth, nature, being, and life. To me, these are profound and indescribable concepts that seem to be trivialized when expressed in words.

  Jimmy Carter

  God, Thinking, Essence

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.222, Three Rivers Press

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• I am starting to like LA, but the concept of a place you have to get used to so much seems a little weird to me. I have been to many foreign cities where I didn't have do acclimatize as much as I did to LA

  Sloane Crosley

  Cities, Littles, Used

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts To The Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums. I'd like to sit and work a whole record with a certain person, to come up with a concept and see it through that way.

  Flying Lotus

  Rapper, Want, Way

  "Flying Lotus Talks New LP, Lil Wayne". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. January 14, 2010.

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• Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

  Albert Camus

  Life And Death, Evil, Unity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.24, Vintage

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