Concrete Quotes

• No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

  William James

  Success, Uplifting, Taken

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.128, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Dream, America, Glasses

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

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• Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

  Agnes Martin

  Art, Feelings, Emotion

  "Perfection Is in the Mind". Interview with Joan Simon, August 21, 1995.

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• The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

  Desmond Morris

  Funny, Zoos, Concrete Jungle

  The Human Zoo (1969) p. 8

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• The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Giving, Individuality

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• We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.

  Salvador Dali

  Hungry, Thirsty, Abstract Art

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• The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Law

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• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  "How Doing What You Love Serves Humanity" by Jason Mannino, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2009.

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• You need a blueprint to build a house because you need to know how far the concrete is going to be poured and you need to know how think the walls have to be.

  Isaiah Washington

  Wall, Thinking, House

  Source: collider.com

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• The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

  Sylvia Plath

  Abstract

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.287, Anchor

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• But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Prayer, Opportunity, Achievement

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• It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Expression, Humanity, Literature

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Hungry, Thirsty

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• As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

  Writing, Friendly, Sometimes

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• For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

  Feelings, Way, Language

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• The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

  Ernest Mandel

  Class, Organization, Problem

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?

  Ulrich Walter

  Believe, Giving, Doe

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• But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

  Ideas, Chance, Clear

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• I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

  Luc Ferrari

  Firsts, Concerts

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• But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

  Writing, Muse, Given

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• Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

  Gustave Courbet

  Art, Real, Painting

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• Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

  Alexander Kluge

  People, Details, Looks

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• I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

  James Laughlin

  Thinking, Years, Six

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• The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Country, Order, Ministry

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