Best Concrete Quotations

522 Concrete quotes by 424 unique authors

No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood and stone that… — Vera Nazarian
Our compassion is the fruit of our spiritual lives; it actually arises spontaneously when formed by intention in our spiritual practice. Love and compassion are… — Wayne Teasdale
The challenge for UNFPA is to help countries as we always have with no agenda of our own; with sensitivity towards unique cultural values; with… — Thoraya Obaid
We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action. — Unknown Author
To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience… — Whitney Tilson
If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports. — Michael Mandelbaum
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the… — Alfred North Whitehead
Only if you bring together the experience of the concrete struggles conducted by the real masses in the three sectors of the world (which are… — Ernest Mandel
The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread,… — Eckhart Tolle
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal. — Albert Camus
Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension. — Karl Jaspers
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and… — Ibrahim Babangida
To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront… — Seamus Heaney
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas… — Sergei Eisenstein
Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month,… — Chip Heath
Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. — Peter Kropotkin
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead… — Igor Stravinsky
More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament. — Alva Myrdal
The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up… — Philip Hensher
Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are… — Thomas Sowell
Understanding people's difficulties and-just as crucial-helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with… — Kathryn Erskine
To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality. — Pablo Picasso
For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such… — Pema Chodron
I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control… — Paco Rabanne
If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete! — Eddie Izzard

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