“Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.” EndsClearConceptsVagueAmbiguousAssonance Author:Erich Fromm
“The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.” ConceptsPursuitPursuit Of Happiness Author:Jerry Garcia
“The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.” BookTurnsConcepts Author:Jesse Ball
“I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.” IdeasConceptsFlesh Author:Jesse Ball
“There's so much more work that goes into developing a makeup line than one would imagine. Personally, I like to be involved in the entire creative process - everything from art direction, collection concepts, formula testing, packaging artwork, to naming the shades and also the marketing side of things.” ArtProcessSidesLinesCreativeImagineInvolvedConceptsMarketingDevelopingCollectionsMakeupFormulasShadeCreative ProcessTestingArtworkPackagingArt Direction Author:Kat Von D
“The stuff that I'm saying, they're not really traditional, structured jokes. It's not like I'm talking about growing up in Chicago or anything remotely close to that. It's basically me juggling words and concepts and phrases and being stupid.” StuffTalkingGrowing UpGrowingStupidJokesConceptsTraditionalPhrasesChicagoJugglingBeing Stupid Author:Reggie Watts
“[ Dalton Trumbo] always said he fought so many fights, all seemingly different, but all about the concepts of fairness and justice.” SaidDifferentFightingJusticeConceptsFairness Author:Jay Roach
“Mini-Me was the pint sized clone that was the perpetuation of Dr. Evil's own legacy [in Austin Powers]. That concept earned the sequel.” EvilConceptsLegacyDrsSequelsAustinPintsMini Me Author:Jay Roach
“I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.” ArtStudentsConceptsInfinityArt Students Author:Lynne Rae Perkins
“Once you know the reason why - you've defined your white space of canvas on which you can paint and create a new concept idea. No matter how creative you are - and thus how much creative space you need - there's always some fundamental values and drivers your brand should seek to address - in order to become successful.” KnowsNeedsShouldIdeasMatterReasonValuesOrderSpaceWhiteCreativeSuccessfulConceptsFundamentalsPaintDefinedBrandsReason WhyAddressesDriversCanvasBecoming SuccessfulWhite SpaceCreative Space Author:Martin Lindstrom
“Small Data is not about testing concepts - it is more to create the foundation for innovative brand thinking.” ThinkingConceptsFoundationBrandsDataTestingInnovative Author:Martin Lindstrom
“If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.” IfsWayWantIdeasConditionsConceptsIndependent Author:Ai Weiwei
“The American founding is not just about a group of people, a group of men. It is about an ideal: Both a vision and understanding of the very essence of democracy, constitutional government, a representative republic, and the remarkably powerful concept of being endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.” PeopleMenGovernmentCertainUnderstandingPowerfulVisionDemocracyRightsGroupsConceptsIdealsEssenceCreatorRepublicRepresentativesFoundingConstitutional GovernmentUnalienable Rights Author:Paul Kengor
“I just genuinely believe in the concept of redemption and renewal, so I was happy. When I get beyond my feelings, I had my own family and friends and so many women across America come to me and say their blood was boiling, asking me how this could happen.” BelieveFeelingsHappensAmericaMy OwnBloodConceptsAskingRedemptionFamily And FriendsRenewalBoiling Author:Paula Broadwell
“The character of Brent Spiner. We certainly collaborate on the concept of that, but he basically writes the script, then it's sort of a combination of his voice and my voice.” WritingCharacterVoiceConceptsScriptsCombination Author:Brent Spiner
“I've toyed with this idea [of Fresh Hell] for a long time. I actually wrote a feature years ago with this sort of concept in mind, and it's gone through several incarnations, and... It wasn't 'til I met Chris Ellis, who directed me in a little thing that was actually for a ride in Universal Singapore, for those of you who happen to be going to Universal Singapore.” YearsMindLittlesLongIdeasHappensGoneHellMetsLong TimeConceptsYears AgoUniversalFeaturesLittle ThingsIncarnationSingapore Author:Brent Spiner
“Everyone who makes a Star Wars film wants to make it their own but they also have to be true to the concept.” WantWarFilmStarsConceptsBeing True Author:Mads Mikkelsen
“[Drizzy] ,it was dope. A great experience, especially with the topic he was talking about and to be... organic.I'm glad that it worked out the way it did where I got to tell my story, tell his story at the same time... and actually have it make sense as far as the whole concept of the album.” WayWholeStoriesTalkingConceptsAlbumsGladMake SenseTopicsDopeGreat Experiences Author:Kendrick Lamar
“Now we are talking about concluding a free trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Council, recently established in the post-Soviet space, and China. A similar agreement was concluded a short time ago with Vietnam. Then, we will coordinate, at least we are ready to do this, the Chinese concept of the Silk Road Economic Belt with our newly-created regional organisation. So, do you understand how diverse, multi-faceted and deep Russian-Chinese ties have become over the last couple of decades? And we resolved the border issue.” LastsSpaceTalkingIssuesEconomicReadyCoupleConceptsTradeChinaDecadesPostsChineseBordersTiesAgreementVietnamSovietDiverseCouncilBeltsOrganisationSilkShort TimeFree TradeCoordinatesTrade AgreementsConcludingSilk Road Author:Vladimir Putin
“Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more effective coach.” IdeasPhilosophyPlayerTeachingConceptsCommunicateCoachesCoaching Author:LaVell Edwards
“The population of African people in the United States is far in excess of six small European nations. Where we are going? We have to go back as best we can to where slavery and colonialism took us from. And they took us from a concept of nation management and nation maintenance. We have been so long away from home we unfortunately have forgotten how we ruled states before the foreigners got there.” PeopleLongHas BeensStatesHomeNationsUnitedUnited StatesSixConceptsManagementSlaveryForgottenPopulationExcessColonialismForeignersMaintenanceAway From Home Author:John Henrik Clarke
“In a matrilineal society, a woman has basic rights that no one has to grant her but you can't take it away from her because the society is based on the concept that the lifegiver is equal to those she gave the life to. And that will remain... until you find a pregnant man.” MenRightsEqualConceptsGrantsPregnantBasic Rights Author:John Henrik Clarke
“Our concept of beauty is taken from Hollywood, which is anti-black. We don't see ourselves as beautiful in most cases. Although we are naturally one of the most beautiful peoples out there, we don't see it. We don't get the point. Hollywood sets the standards.” BeautifulBlackCasesTakenStandardsConceptsHollywoodBeautiful People Author:John Henrik Clarke
“When someone is buying a sample-based album, they are investing in the concept of that album. If they really like the original source material, they can go buy it.” IfsMaterialsSourceConceptsOriginalsInvestingAlbumsBuyingSample Author:Girl Talk
“A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream up the idea of immortality. Long before that (in evolutionary terms) all species with brains have the survival instinct in some form. So, I am just saying that there are many existent proofs of species that have one, but not the other.” LongIdeasDreamFormOrderTermBrainSurvivalConceptsInstinctSpeciesProofImmortalityAbstractSurvival InstinctJust Saying Author:Neal Stephenson
“I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness, this sense that it is more fulfilling not to exist, to efface all traces, than to limit oneself to the determined expression of manifestation.” IfsExpressionLimitsConceptsOneselfDeterminedManifestationMuseFulfillingWeariness Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“[John Boswell] introduction of the concept of "gay" (in the way he defines it) provides us both with a useful instrument of research and at the same time a better comprehension of how people actually conceive of themselves and their sexual behavior.” PeopleWayGayBehaviorResearchConceptsInstrumentsIntroductionComprehension Author:Michel Foucault
“Just go to Disneyland. You have the impact of how the Americans think, how they dream, what they desire, how they have a good time, what they prefer. I associate this with young people. But many times I think this infantile quality is much better than the false, incomplete concept of adulthood.” PeopleThinkingDreamYoungDesireQualityConceptsImpactGood TimesAdulthoodAssociatesHaving A Good TimeIncompleteDisneylandInfantile Author:Sergio Leone
“The concept there was that the small number of developed countries within the Commonwealth should provide assistance. This was not just financial but personal, providing experts and so on, to assist less developed members of the Commonwealth to get on the growing path. And that was part of what we did with South Africa.” ShouldCountryNumbersPathGrowingMembersConceptsSouthFinancialExpertsProvidingSouth AfricaAssistanceCommonwealthSmall NumbersDeveloped Country Author:Bob Hawke
“[Twitter] is not totally where I go anymore to sell myself as a concept, as a comedian, because it moves too fast.” MovingConceptsSellsComedian Author:Jen Kirkman
“[Bill Clinton] was the man, as a matter of fact, who, in terms of the Communications Decency Act, which would have made the Internet, the whole concept of cyberspace, vulnerable to rampant censorship - he pushed that bill, and I know the man in the Justice Department whom he persuaded - the guy didn't want to lose his job - to write the bill.” KnowsMenWantWritingMadeMatterWholeFactsJobsGuyTermLosesJusticeHe ManCommunicationInternetConceptsBillsClintonVulnerableDepartmentCensorshipDecencyMatter Of FactCyberspace Author:Nat Hentoff
“Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you realize that it changes things. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry.” ThinkingBelieveBodyRealizingConceptsYour BodyCellsAwakeInquiry Author:Byron Katie
“I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but that is not easily understood for people who think the way I used to think and believe what I used to believe.” PeopleThinkingWayBelieveUsedJoyGoes OnUnderstoodConceptsStatementsDepressing Author:Byron Katie
“The mind is so tricky. It will say, "No one cares. Is it true? Well, someone does. Let's see: So-and-so doesn't care. Well, maybe they do. Well, there is someone who doesn't care." It just shifts and shifts and shifts, so it can keep all of its concepts intact.” MindWellsDoeCareConceptsTrickyNo One Cares Author:Byron Katie
“Sometimes the concept you're questioning makes more sense to ask just the second one and not the first one.” FirstsSometimesAsksConceptsQuestioning Author:Byron Katie
“The story of James Delaney is also someone who very deliberately presents himself as an individual and plays nations against each other, plays the East India against the Crown, all of those sort of overwhelming concepts that ran the world at the time.” WorldPlayStoriesIndividualNationsConceptsIndiaEastRanOverwhelmingCrowns Author:Steven Knight
“I would say the first key concept is that, in terms of technological and communication progress in human history, the Internet is basically the equivalent of electronic telepathy. We can now communicate all the time through our little magic smartphones with people who are anywhere, all the time, constantly learning what they're thinking, talking about, exchanging messages. And this is a new capability even within the context of the Internet.” PeopleThinkingFirstsHumansLittlesTermTalkingProgressMagicCommunicationKeysInternetMessagesConceptsCommunicateCapabilityTechnologicalHuman HistoryTelepathySmartphonesExchangingConstantly Learning Author:Edward Snowden
“You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the government, something that can be abrogated at its convenience. And that has diminished the measure of liberty within a society.” GovernmentLibertyRightsConceptsPrivilegeConvenience Author:Edward Snowden
“We are all today being monitored in advance and in criminal suspicion. And I think that's terrifying, and deeply illiberal as concept. And that's something that we should reject.” ThinkingShouldTodayConceptsCriminalsRejectsSuspicion Author:Edward Snowden
“What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in.” WayExerciseConceptsFunctionClaims Author:Simon Sinek
“The concept of why is already in the vernacular. It is now a noun. "That company doesn't know their why." "They need to learn their why." "That politician needs to understand his why." We talk about it as a noun. That never existed prior to 2009. That never existed prior to 2006 when I first started articulating it. This is the most amazing thing to me. It has now become a concept. It's part of the way we think about businesses and transactions and decisions.” ThinkingKnowsWayNeedsFirstsDecisionCompanyPoliticianConceptsAmazing ThingsTransactionsMost AmazingNounsVernacularArticulating Author:Simon Sinek
“Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human nature - what we would call genetically determined.” HumansHuman NatureEnlightenmentConceptsRootsFundamentalsDeterminedConceptionAlienationRomanticismManuscripts Author:Noam Chomsky
“There is nothing more mysterious about the concept human nature than about the concept bee or chicken nature, at least for those who regard humans as creatures in the biological world.” WorldHumansHuman NatureCreaturesConceptsRegardMysteriousChickensBees Author:Noam Chomsky
“We don't like to use the phrase "state security" in the United States because it reminds us of all the bad regimes. But it's a key concept, because when these officials are out on TV, they're not talking about what's good for you. They're not talking about what's good for business. They're not talking about what's good for society. They're talking about the protection and perpetuation of a national state system.” StatesUseUnitedTalkingUnited StatesSecurityTvsKeysConceptsProtectionPhrasesOfficialsRegimesNot Talking Author:Edward Snowden
“Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as many as five at a time.” YearsTwoBookThreeFiveConceptsFinalsThree YearsOutlinesEdits Author:Danielle Steel
“Writing is not possible without images. Yet, images don't have to be descriptive; they can be concepts.” WritingConcepts Author:Paul Virilio
“Everyone is concerned about his niche, his name, and wants to adapt the concept to so-called national characteristics. But at the end of the day, it's all the same.” WantEndsNamesConceptsConcernedCharacteristicsThe End Of The DayNiche Author:Garry Kasparov
“Women should not be suppressed because they are women, because they have children and because of men. Then I am a feminist. But when it comes to the African concept, for the moment, I say 'feminist plus'. We have so many other problems.” MenShouldChildrenMomentsProblemConceptsFeministPlus Author:Buchi Emecheta
“I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course Stieglitz. Stieglitz always considered photography to be an art form and is the "father" of the creative concepts of the twentieth century.” ArtFormCoursesFatherCreativeCenturyPhotographyLowsConceptsAppreciationTwentieth Century Author:Ansel Adams