“One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.” HumansDoeArtFormUsedTermHuman BeingsDealsExistenceDesignColorPaintingArt IsWeaknessConcernIntellectInventionRealmsAbstractSubstitutesConceptionContemptArrangementsImaginativeInner LifeProvincesPristineAbstract PaintingTerm Life Author:Edward Hopper
“There have been concerns about the long-term prospect that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally don’t think that’s going to happen.” ThinkingKindLongHas BeensHappensCertainTermLosesConcernLong Term Author:Eric Horvitz
“1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to each other. This spacing is the simultaneously active and passive (the a of différance indicates this indecision as concerns activity and passivity, that which cannot be governed by or distributed between the terms of this opposition) production of the intervals without which the "full" terms would not signify, would not function.” MeanPlayTermDifferencesActivityElementsConcernFunctionProductionsActiveRelatedOppositionPassiveSystematicIntervalsIndecisionPassivitySpacing Author:Jacques Derrida
“Girls face two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s: One is an old issue of coming to terms with their own sexuality, defining a sexual self, making sexual choices and learning to enjoy sex. The other issue concerns the dangers girls face of being sexually assaulted. By late adolescence, most girls today either have been traumatized or know girls who have. They are fearful of males even as they are trying to develop intimate relations with them.” KnowsTryingHas BeensTwoSelfTodayAmericaFacesChoicesGirlSexEnjoyTermIssuesDangerLateMajorsConcernRelationMalesSexualityIntimateFearfulAdolescenceDefiningSexually Author:Mary Pipher
“I still believe that term limits is the best way to ensure that the next generation, not the next election, is the central concern in our elected bodies.” WayBelieveStillsBodyPoliticalNextPoliticsTermGenerationsLimitsConcernElectionBest WayNext GenerationI Still BelieveTerm Limits Author:Tom Coburn
“Most asylum seekers do get permanent visas, so the earlier they receive the appropriate help, the faster they will become part of the community. They'll get jobs and start paying taxes too. They will see Australia as a nation with a sense of care and concern. That's so important for a cohesive society. It helps build a sense of belonging. And in terms of common decency, it's what should be happening... For God's sake, this is Australia, people should be treated with decency and humanity.” PeopleShouldImportantHelpingCareJobsHumanityNationsTermCommunityCommonTaxesHappeningsConcernSakeTreatedFasterPermanentAppropriateAustraliaBelongingDecencySeekersAsylumsVisaPaying TaxesAsylum SeekersCommon DecencyCare And Concern Author:Malcolm Fraser
“European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners promises concern a four-year parliamentary term, european Union partners will be spaced out in an optimal way, in a way that is in tune with our bargaining stance in Europe and also with the fiscal position of the Greek state.” WayYearsSaidStatesTermFourPositionPromiseEuropeConcernUnionsPartnersGreekTunesFour YearsEuropean UnionStanceBargainingParliamentaryOptimal Author:Yanis Varoufakis
“Whether it's your own material or somebody else's material, it's essential that you identify with it thoroughly. It's like you want to archive it; you want to freeze it in time in terms of your perspective on it, then move on, because folk music is that volatile and comments not only on overall human concerns but also on the specifics.” WantHumansMovingTermMaterialsLike YouPerspectiveEssentialsMusic IsConcernFolksCommentFreezeFolk MusicArchivesSpecifics Author:Paul Stookey
“There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.” KindCultureTermProgressSeeingConcernLandscapeWildernessOpposingEnvironmentalist Author:Michael Pollan
“You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the number of laws? Number of employees? You could make arguments for either one. I tend to think the axis of the size of government is the wrong concern. But I do think that situating power more locally is a legitimate approach.” ThinkingMeanBigsGovernmentLawTermNumbersApproachConcernArgumentSizeLocalsEngagedEmployeeAxesLocal GovernmentSize Of Government Author:Zephyr Teachout
“I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always been important in terms of human concerns.” MindHumansImportantYoungTermPoetConcernEntering Author:Edward Hirsch
“The constant drive for campaign dollars has distorted decision-making in Washington, DC, to the point where our systems can no longer effectively address complex, long-term problems like the climate crisis. Which brings me to my other major concern - the short-term focus of capitalism. It distorts the allocation of resources and the decision-making processes of companies.” LongProblemProcessTermDecisionCompanyFocusMajorsCapitalismResourcesConcernCrisisConstantDollarsClimateComplexesCampaignsLong TermAddressesDecision MakingShort TermWashington DcAllocationDecision Making Process Author:Al Gore
“The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.” RunningTermShareConcernProfitPlanningRationalUnusualShort Term Author:Noam Chomsky
“Obviously I have concerns, right, about national security in terms of Russia, and China, and North Korea, and obviously, the problems we have in the Middle East.” ProblemTermMiddleSecurityConcernChinaEastRussiaMiddle EastNational SecurityKoreaNorth Korea Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle
“Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature. But we live in a world in which all sorts of change is happening all the time, and the only way to understand what climate change will bring is to tell stories about how it manifests in people's lives.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayMeanStoriesTermHappeningsConcernScientistClimateClimate ChangeSurfaceConstructsTemperature Author:Dale Jamieson
“Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular acts was hardly his concern. The psychology of his day was hedonistic and he worked in that framework and passed it on to Mill, but it is clear as day that Mill was not a hedonist in the sense in which we use that term today, though he used the language of pleasure and pain to express his views.” WritingUseLightTodayPainUsedLanguageTermPleasureViewsClearPsychologyParticularConcernConstitutionReformFrameworkMillsEvaluationPain And PleasureUtilitarianismHedonisticHedonist Author:Dale Jamieson
“What is true, and I think that we can't deny it, is that some of the same concerns about globalization, about technology, rapid social change that were reflected in Brexit, that's been reflected in some of the debates in Germany and France and other places, that those exist in the United States as well. My view is that over the long term, over the next 10, 15, 20 years, if we are able to address the legitimate economic concerns of those who feel left behind by globalization, then many of these tensions will be reduced. And we will see a world that is less divided.” IfsThinkingWorldFeelsYearsWellsLongStatesAbleNextLeftSocialTermUnitedViewsBehindsTechnologyUnited StatesEconomicConcernDenyDebateFranceLong TermTensionGermanyAddressesDividedGlobalizationSocial ChangeLeft BehindRapids Author:Barack Obama
“You know why I love Chicago? Because this is just like Baltimore. Like, you can't go to Baltimore and be fake. They gonna point you right out, like, "Nah, you fake, go ahead outta here." They're going to chew you up and spit you out if you're fake. And if you come to Chicago, you can't be fake, in terms of the love and the concern. You gotta be real. Your good intentions - people want to feel that. We don't get enough of that.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantFeelsRealEnoughTermLike YouConcernIntentionFakeChicagoBeing RealSpitGood IntentionsBaltimore Author:Felicia Pearson
“The term 'human rights' has been too often associated with conditionality, and with concerns of developing countries that in order to benefit from open trade they would be required to implement immediately labour and environmental standards of a comparable level to those applied in industrialised countries. At the same time, debates about the primacy of trade as against human rights legal codes have contributed to maintaining the unfortunate impression that the two bodies of law are pursuing incompatible aims.” HumansHas BeensTwoCountryBodyWould BeLawOrderTermLevelsRightsBenefitsStandardsConcernAimTradeEnvironmentalHuman RightsDebateImpressionDevelopingCodeLabourUnfortunateMaintainingDeveloping CountriesPrimacy Author:Mary Robinson
“It's a cause for great concern because a lot of people have said and done repulsive things in terms of racism and misogyny and marginalizing people - it's really come to fruition, something I've spent the last 21 years of my life trying to expose and educate people on. This really is kind of a dream scenario for white nationalists at the moment.” PeopleTryingKindDoneMomentsDreamTermRacismConcernEducateMisogyny Author:Christian Picciolini
“There's a term, agape, you hear used a lot with charismatic religious groups, that it's this more pure love of caring, of sharing of concern and understanding. I think players and teams have to come to that at some point in the season to become successful. Maybe not "personal friends," but they become teammates at the highest level of that term.” ThinkingUnderstandingTermReligiousSuccessfulPlayerTeamConcernCaringTeammatePure LoveCharismaticBecoming SuccessfulAgape Author:Phil Jackson
“I do know that the effect of the tremendous cutbacks on education that we're seeing are going to create a major problem for the country if we don't provide the opportunity to a huge swath of our society. These impacts are going to have an effect across national security, it's going to have an effect across our social services, and of course on the economy, in broad terms. So there is, I think, at least a level of concern that we ought to have at this point in our history.” ThinkingCountryProblemOpportunityTermEconomySecurityConcernNational SecuritySocial Service Author:Ricardo Sanchez
“Donald Trump never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Here's an issue where his concern is this line with public opinion, but the way he deals with it is actually puts him in a super minority in terms of people who are able to somehow bring himself to support his language and demeanor.” PeopleOpportunityLanguageTermOpinionSupportMissingConcernDemeanor Author:Van Jones
“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.” WritingKindArtArtistTermCreativeConcernPerfectionOpen MindedBeing An Artist Book:franny and zooey Source: franny and zooey
“I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?” ArtTermWonderConcernOur SocietySpokesElitesPastimeOptional Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“'You hate America, don't you?' 'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.'” ThinkingBelieveHumansSaidI CanRealSoulEndsWould BePainAmericaHateTermInterestLinesPleasureVirtueDoubtImpossibleEmotionalPersonalityConcernCrossesMarkVicesSillyBoundariesNo DoubtFlawsImaginaryEstatesHuman SoulUnrealPain And PleasurePixiesMother NightImaginary Lines Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern.” WorldMindDoeImportantMatterFactsProblemEyeOrderTermInterestExistenceOrdinaryConcernRelationDistancePatternsCeaseSignificanceCategoriesIntensityImpliedProfunditySpatial Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956 Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956
“In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term.” ShouldMightTermEasierAreasConcernSpeciesProtectionShort TermBiodiversity Author:Richard Leakey
“The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth.” IfsHumansLongWholeCareEarthEnjoyTermNatureChanceExistenceEnvironmentGenerationsPlanetsConcernLong TermConservationOur PlanetFuture GenerationNatural Environment Author:Prince Philip
“We're responsible for the fortunes of the company but this is a bone-dry situation in terms of access to credit. Nobody can operate on that basis unless you have large cash balances, which we don't. My concern is that the government doesn't appear to care about manufacturing.” GovernmentCareTermResponsibilityCompanySituationBalanceConcernBasesResponsibleFortuneCreditBonesAccessDryCashManufacturing Author:Ratan Tata