Concept Quotes

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Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Although we've used the concept brand communities a couple of times, it's important to reiterate that communities aren't created, they are courted. Most brands will… — Henry Jenkins
The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to… — John Naisbitt
[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that… — Bill Gates
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by… — Friedrich August von Hayek
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we understand that God… — Ravi Zacharias
Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence.… — Howard Gardner
In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word, roughly defined as… — Russell Simmons
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore… — Murray Rothbard
I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his concept… — Robert Andrews Millikan
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron… — Hermann Minkowski
The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea). — Michael Shermer
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the… — Christian Lous Lange
We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty... — Evo Morales
For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is a useless hypothesis;… — Rajneesh
One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate… — Ayn Rand
It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I… — Andrea Jung
It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about… — Ralph Lauren
Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand… — Joss Whedon

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