Abstract Quotes

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Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life,… — Anna Julia Cooper
A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points of actions, cross… — Ernest Fenollosa
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. — Georges Simenon
People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it… — Jessica Livingston
Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all… — David Mumford
Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating movements of the… — Harlan Lane
Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen… — Daniel H. Pink
Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful… — Jim Henson
Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know. — Daniel Tammet
[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact. — James Nachtwey
We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate domains we abstract… — Ernest Everett Just
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources… — Alvin Toffler
I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words. — Katherine McCoy
I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of… — Max Beckmann
The southern German has the imagination and emotionality to subscribe to a fanatic ideology, but he is ordinarily inhibited from excesses by his natural humaneness.… — Arthur Seyss-Inquart
A mathematician is anï»¿ individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts. — Bill Gaede
When a person you love dies, it doesnâ€™t feel real. Itâ€™s like itâ€™s happening to someone else. Itâ€™s someone elseâ€™s life. Iâ€™ve never been good… — Jenny Han
Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME in my hectic,… — Elisabeth Leamy
Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all… — Tony Hiss
All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth. — Milford Zornes

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