Concrete Quotes - Page 15

• Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Action, Empty

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• Peace is brittle and a big burden on our shoulders so we need ... concrete help from the European Union and the European Commission, we can get more support together than on our own, to maximize the gains for our peoples.

  Edi Rama

  Peace, Support, Together

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• Humans will take a rain forest and lose it and cover it with concrete. They will take the woods and turn it into a parking garage and I am not saying that's bad. I am just saying that's what we do. We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.

  Henry Rollins

  Rain, Forests, Woods

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Men, Achieve

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives”

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• Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.

  William James

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.16, Harvard University Press

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• Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

  William James

  Truth, Reality, Ideas

  William James (2007). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.128, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated me, through the brothers and sisters I grew up with, the schools I went to, there was this influence upon me which was the faith, in the concrete. I accepted it, I questioned it, I grew up with it, and in the end, as a mature adult, I continue to accept it.

  George Coyne

  Brother, School, Mean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I realize that in a happy life, making your bed should play a very small part, I don't know why this is so helpful to people getting started on a happiness project, but for some reason, making your bed - it's concrete, it's manageable. There's a big difference between having a bed that's unmade and a bed that's made. That little bit of outer order in people's lives seem to help them get started. So, that's a very small thing that you can do.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happy Life, Order, Play

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Reform, Ends

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• The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Artist, Particular

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.170, Anchor

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• In your system of reality you are learning what mental energy is, and how to use it. You do this by constantly transforming your thought and emotions into physical form. You are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development by perceiving the exterior environment. What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event independent from you, is instead the materialization of your own inner emotions, energy, and mental environment.

  Seth

  Independent, Reality, Perception

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• The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.

  Daniel Webster

  Interesting, Elements, Agents

  Daniel WEBSTER (1852). “An address delivered before the New York Historical Society, Feb. 23, 1852”, p.7

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• If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need to learn about craft so that the next time you pick up a contemporary short story, you're reading it not as an abstraction floating in formaldehyde, existing simply for the theorist's dull scalpel to saw on, but as a concrete thing constructed out of words and shaped by syntax, brought to life by a writer who made several thousand choices, some large, some small, before letting that imperfect beauty, the story, walk on its own two feet.

  John McNally

  Reading, Writing, Two

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• The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

  Carlos Santana

  Cynical, Life Is, Worst

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• Theatre is so much fun because you do theatre and you have a month of working it out on your own, and then a month of rehearsal, so by the time you get to stage I know where I'm failing and I know where I'm succeeding and your boundaries are pretty concrete.

  Chris Pine

  Fun, Theatre, Rehearsal

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise apartment building. That was very innovative at the time.

  I. M. Pei

  Bricks, Clients, Wonderful

  Source: archtalks.com

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• It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless.

  Barack Obama

  New York, Children, Believe

  "Baltimore unrest as Obama pushes mentoring program" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. May 5, 2015.

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• I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually - the way I see it - your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.

  Thom Yorke

  Blow, Thinking, Wind

  "Thom Yorke: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 13, 2013.

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• No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!

  Guy Finley

  Stones, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Aug 02, 2015

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• Every concrete object
  has abstract value, is timeless
  in the dream parallel.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Dream, Timeless, Abstract

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.523, New Directions Publishing

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• Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Love, Symbolism, Want

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• You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don't think I ever liked it. I always found something repulsive about it. I prefer finite mathematics much more than infinite mathematics. I think that it is much more natural, much more appealing and the theory is much more beautiful. It is very concrete. It is something that you can touch and something you can feel and something to relate to. Infinity mathematics, to me, is something that is meaningless, because it is abstract nonsense.

  Doron Zeilberger

  Beautiful, Science, Thinking

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• The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.

  Sherry Turkle

  Self, Ideas, Psychology

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.282, MIT Press

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• I was inspired by the androgyny of Yohji Yamanoto's designs to translate the clothing's dualities onto screen and image. I was playing with a multitude of influences for the S/S 2012 campaign, inspired by the modernist literature and architecture that is in itself a fusion of political and architectural mantras, both dreamy and concrete.

  Collier Schorr

  Design, Political, Fusion

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• The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

  Alan Watts

  Past, Reality, Abstraction

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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