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title: "Top Abstract Sayings"
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> [Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-h-pink/abstract-thinking-leads-to-greater-creativity-but-in-our-businesses/)

[Daniel H. Pink](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-h-pink/)

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> [The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-art-of-avoiding-extremes-is-an-art-that-is-drawn-on-the-canvas-of/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [ This attitude \[the abstract method in mathematics\] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-gowers/this-attitude-the-abstract-method-in-mathematics-can-be-encapsulated/)

[Timothy Gowers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-gowers/)

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> [Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-wiker/like-aristotle-conservatives-generally-accept-the-world-as-it-is-they/)

[Benjamin Wiker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-wiker/)

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> [None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/none-of-the-abstract-concepts-comes-closer-to-fulfilled-utopia-than/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

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> [I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-cantona/i-am-searching-for-abstract-ways-of-expressing-reality-abstract-forms/)

[Eric Cantona](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-cantona/)

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> [Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/feist/because-there-s-just-so-much-in-a-day-now-i-keep-writing-in-much-more/)

[Feist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/feist/)

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> [You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/you-ve-got-a-lot-of-time-for-abstract-thought-when-you-ve-got-your/)

[Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/)

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> [Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-beecher-stowe/everyone-confesses-in-the-abstract-that-exertion-which-brings-out-all/)

[Harriet Beecher Stowe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-beecher-stowe/)

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> [Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-frankfurter/future-lawyers-should-be-more-aware-that-law-is-not-a-system-of/)

[Felix Frankfurter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-frankfurter/)

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> [Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-grey/realism-and-naturalism-rely-mostly-on-the-eye-of-the-flesh-abstract/)

[Alex Grey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-grey/)

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> [But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/romare-bearden/but-no-one-when-you-stop-to-think-has-ever-equated-abstract/)

[Romare Bearden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/romare-bearden/)

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> [College students overwhelmingly support free speech in the abstract, but when it comes to the real world, they are accepting of restrictions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-katharine-ham/college-students-overwhelmingly-support-free-speech-in-the-abstract/)

[Mary Katharine Ham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-katharine-ham/)

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> [ We \[Americans\] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-belafonte/we-americans-move-about-the-world-arrogantly-calling-wars-when-we/)

[Harry Belafonte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-belafonte/)

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> [Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boots-riley/becoming-a-father-made-me-a-lot-more-sentimental-than-i-ever-was/)

[Boots Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boots-riley/)

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> [To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/to-desire-money-is-much-nobler-than-to-desire-success-desiring-money/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/iconic-clothing-has-been-secularized-a-guardsman-in-a-dress-uniform/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

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> [This New Age is marking the dawn of a new world-thought. That new thought is a new cosmic concept of the value…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell/this-new-age-is-marking-the-dawn-of-a-new-world-thought-that-new/)

[Walter Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-russell/)

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> [I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/i-have-spent-much-time-in-the-study-of-the-abstract-sciences-but-the/)

[Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/)

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> [There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-buscaglia/there-is-seemingly-so-little-love-shared-in-this-world-it-is-not/)

[Leo Buscaglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-buscaglia/)

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> [Happiness can seem like an abstract, transcendent notion, but in fact, I found that getting enough sleep (very important!!), getting exercise, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretchen-rubin/happiness-can-seem-like-an-abstract-transcendent-notion-but-in-fact-i/)

[Gretchen Rubin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretchen-rubin/)

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> [Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-easton-ellis/where-there-was-nature-and-earth-life-and-water-i-saw-a-desert-3/)

[Bret Easton Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-easton-ellis/)

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> [I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups - (a) Love of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-lovecraft/i-should-describe-mine-own-nature-as-tripartite-my-interests/)

[H. P. Lovecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-lovecraft/)

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> [Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/beauty-like-all-other-qualities-presented-to-human-experience-is/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

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> [Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/never-use-abstract-nouns-when-concrete-ones-will-do-if-you-mean-more/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-more-abstract-the-truth-you-wish-to-teach-the-more-you-need-to/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sufjan-stevens/there-is-nothing-more-incredible-and-moving-and-appealing-than-good/)

[Sufjan Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sufjan-stevens/)

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> [The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-physical-world-is-entirely-abstract-and-without-actuality-apart/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-jacobson/you-cannot-be-present-in-an-abstract-way-presence-is-not-about/)

[Leonard Jacobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-jacobson/)

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> [Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-jaynes/abstract-words-are-ancient-coins-whose-concrete-images-in-the-give/)

[Julian Jaynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-jaynes/)

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> [People tend to have a knee-jerk response to the word 'philosophy'. You imagine it's abstract and inaccessible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bettany-hughes/people-tend-to-have-a-knee-jerk-response-to-the-word-philosophy-you/)

[Bettany Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bettany-hughes/)

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> [One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-motherwell/one-of-the-most-striking-aspects-of-abstract-art-s-appearance-is-her/)

[Robert Motherwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-motherwell/)

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> [The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naum-gabo/the-shapes-we-are-creating-are-not-abstract-they-are-absolute-they/)

[Naum Gabo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naum-gabo/)

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> [Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-ananiashvili/ballet-is-not-just-movement-not-simply-abstract-it-s-something/)

Nina Ananiashvili

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> [Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/justin-peck/balanchine-was-just-able-to-strike-the-balance-between-literal/)

[Justin Peck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/justin-peck/)

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> [It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flannery-o-connor/it-is-a-good-deal-easier-for-most-people-to-state-an-abstract-idea/)

[Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flannery-o-connor/)

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> [Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hiss/our-relationship-with-places-is-a-close-bond-intricate-in-nature-and/)

[Tony Hiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hiss/)

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> [(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cahill/the-festival-was-awfully-impersonal-and-abstract-and-there-was/)

[Thomas Cahill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cahill/)

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> [Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-genn/music-is-the-most-abstract-of-the-arts-and-it-expresses-the-sound-of/)

[Robert Genn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-genn/)

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> [Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-nicholson/realism-has-been-abandoned-in-the-search-for-reality-the-principal/)

[Ben Nicholson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-nicholson/)

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