The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
The idea of printing out something that's as scary as a tumor into its concrete form was something that spoke to me… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Humans will take a rain forest and lose it and cover it with concrete. They will take the woods and turn it… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end.… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal… — Crawford Kilian Copy Share Image
...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent… — Peter James Copy Share Image
The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations.… — Paul Baran Copy Share Image
The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
Say you're working for a big overseas aid organization. You can't leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
There are many agreements across the so-called "world religions," at a certain level of abstraction. But when it comes to applying them… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific,… — J. P. Morgan Copy Share Image
The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete. — Carl G. Fisher Copy Share Image
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s. — Luc Ferrari Copy Share Image
Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in… — Shaukat Aziz Copy Share Image
Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example,… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new. — Ethel M. Dell Copy Share Image
Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and… — Astrid Berges-Frisbey Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada. — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
Cracks in the concrete are just constant reminders that you fall apart no matter how strong you are.but the road is always… — Murali Iyengar Copy Share Image
If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them. — David Ignatow Copy Share Image
The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
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