Conceptual Quotes

156 Conceptual quotes by 123 unique authors

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming. — Alan Perlis
Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are… — Edsger Dijkstra
Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost… — Wilhelm Wundt
Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think… — George Lakoff
The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the… — Ferdinand Christian Baur
All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually. — Joseph Kosuth
I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint. — Cynthia Rowley
In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the… — Zeena Schreck
Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table… — Daniel H. Pink
The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just… — Seth Godin
As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history of the world… — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart. — Sakyong Mipham
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment. — Ramesh S Balsekar
To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We… — Eckhart Tolle
When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are… — Eckhart Tolle
To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of… — Eckhart Tolle
Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them… — Albert Einstein
For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common good should not… — Pope Francis
I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people's marginalization from what the art subculture is because if… — Barbara Kruger
Attention is the vital thing and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It's not concentration or straining.… — Eckhart Tolle
The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us… — Ram Dass
Space is a unifying field of awareness in which you meet the other person without the separative barriers created by conceptual thinking. And now the… — Eckhart Tolle
Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but… — Gaston Bachelard
Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’ — Lucy R. Lippard

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