Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does. — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to… — Feist Copy Share Image
You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
College students overwhelmingly support free speech in the abstract, but when it comes to the real world, they are accepting of restrictions… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
This New Age is marking the dawn of a new world-thought. That new thought is a new cosmic concept of the value… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Happiness can seem like an abstract, transcendent notion, but in fact, I found that getting enough sleep (very important!!), getting exercise, not… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater,… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups - (a) Love of the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
People tend to have a knee-jerk response to the word 'philosophy'. You imagine it's abstract and inaccessible. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want… — Nina Ananiashvili Copy Share Image
Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a… — Tony Hiss Copy Share Image
(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
![“This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.” quote by Timothy Gowers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8f/timothy-gowers-30245_abstract_this-attitude-the-abstract-method-in-mat_746072.png)
![“We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid for it -- look at 9/11. [That] wasn't just bin Laden. Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see…” quote by Harry Belafonte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/902/harry-belafonte-4893_abstract_we-americans-move-about-the-world-arroga_912364.jpg)
