Conceptual Framework Quotes

• Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

  Bede Griffiths

  Reality, Vision, Adequate

  Bede Griffiths (2004). “Bede Griffiths: Essential Writings”

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• What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality. Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.

  Alan Greenspan

  Reality, People, Way

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• My conceptual framework, which basically emphasizes the importance of misconceptions, makes me extremely critical of my own decisions. I know that I am bound to be wrong, and therefore am more likely to correct my own mistakes.

  George Soros

  Mistake, Decision, Framework

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• The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions

  Fritjof Capra

  Community, Greek, Patterns

  Fritjof Capra (1989). “Uncommon Wisdom: Conversations with Remarkable People”, Bantam

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• The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to step outside the conceptual framework they have and transmitting blocks of awareness to an individual psychically.

  Frederick Lenz

  Block, Teaching, Mind

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• After a lifetime in this subject, I have concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is one reasonable tentative approach to putting the best-documented and most puzzling UFO reports into a scientifically defensible conceptual framework. By such reports I mean those with credible multiple or independent witnesses, instrumented observations, and physical evidence.

  Jerome Clark

  Mean, Independent, Lifetime

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• Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Space, Challenges, Flow

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.43, 1988.

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• Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

  Robert Hewison

  Friends, Running, Failure

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• I think what they've been doing is largely almost in firefighting mode without a good conceptual framework - either at the micro or the macro level. Micro, you would ask: "What kind of financial or banking system do we want?" Macro, you would say: "What are the underlying problems in the structure of our economy?"

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Thinking, Banking, Levels

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

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• When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.

  Z'EV

  Player, Playing Music, Acoustics

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

  Robert Fripp

  Views, World, Sophisticated

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