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Concrete Quotes by William James
- If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if…
- Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and…
- No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken…
- Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's…
- We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling…
More Concrete Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. — Theodor Adorno
- I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns. — Jeff Bingaman
- Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it… — Vanna Bonta
- Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. — Jorge Luis Borges
- We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi… — Sherrod Brown
- A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against… — Herb Caen
- Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched… — Dale Carnegie
- I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality. — Paul Cezanne
- Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. — Henri Frederic Amiel
- In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church,… — Tadao Ando