Concepts Quotes · Page 90

It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety…

— Wilson Bryan Key

Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification:…

— Milan Kundera

How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?

— Taiye Selasi

According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I have told our senior executives that I will slaughter holy cows if it benefits the company's long-term success. When we asked…

— Norbert Reithofer

We have to unmask this man [POTUS Obama]. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God - and…

— Rafael

Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.

— Rene Dubos

“All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.”

— Deyth Banger

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights…

— Arundhati Roy

Even in financial markets, the concept of market efficiency does not hold.

— Paul Ormerod

“Becoming limitless involves mental agility; the ability to quickly grasp and incorporate new ideas and concepts with confidence.”

— Lorii Myers

The Court abandoned the traditional constitutional meaning of 'religion' as a single denomination or system of worship and instead substituted a new…

— David Barton

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real…

— Alessia Cara

Anytime you hear the concept of the separation of church and state being talked about these days, it is never in regard…

— D. James Kennedy

If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is…

— Adyashanti

Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism]…

— Jonny Wilkinson

People aren't very good listeners, by nature. Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make…

— Mike Tomlin

The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes…

— Bell Hooks

The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the…

— Edward de Bono

[Bill Clinton] was the man, as a matter of fact, who, in terms of the Communications Decency Act, which would have made…

— Nat Hentoff

I find the whole concept of being 'SEXY' embarrassing and confusing. If I do an interview with photographs people desperately want to…

— Emma Watson

I admire leaders in science, people who really figure things out like Richard Fineman or people who work on vaccines, tons of…

— Bill Gates

Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts…

— Steven Pinker

The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and…

— John Stuart Mill

Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like…

— Thom Gunn