Concepts Quotes

• Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general public looked upon relativity as indicative of the seemingly incomprehensible modern era, educated scientists despaired of ever understanding what Einstein had done, and political ideologues used the new theory to exploit public fears and anxieties-all of which opened a rift between science and the broader culture that continues to expand today.

  

  David C. Cassidy
  • Science
  • Political
  • Culture

• I believe in two concepts: Everything in moderation and break a sweat every day.

  

  Ariana Madix
  • Concepts
  • Moderation
  • Sweat

• I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Marriage
  • Learned
  • Concepts

• One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into them in order to get their basic needs met - what I call "administrative violence." I had images of forms with gender boxes and ID cards with gender markers, but I also wanted an image that would capture how basic services like shelters are gender segregated.

  

  Dean Spade
  • People
  • Needs
  • Gender

• Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words.

  

  Sunil Nagaraj
  • Mistake
  • Concepts
  • Entrepreneurs

• I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Stuff
  • Talking
  • Bigs

• Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

  

  Rudolph A. Marcus
  • Theory
  • Mathematics
  • Exposed

• The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Law
  • Should
  • Treated

• I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

  

  Moon Unit Zappa
  • Remember
  • Concepts
  • Realising

• At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.

  

  Michael Bergdahl
  • Simple
  • Ideas
  • Term

• It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Language
  • Said
  • Firsts

• If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.

  

  Nicholas D. Woodman
  • Passion
  • Cameras
  • Surfing

• According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Democracy
  • Socialism
  • Construction

• I don't thrive on the concept of being naked at every possible moment, but it's not the biggest deal in the world to me.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • World
  • Moments
  • Deals

• I think the desire to be a journalist started post-911. I'm Syrian American. I speak fluent Arabic. I'd come back to the States for college. I went to Skidmore in upstate New York. I was coming from Turkey, and I'd noticed that I could talk about concepts and ideas and people who seemed foreign to Americans, and they were interested in what I had to say. I think some of it is maybe because I'm very unassuming and I look American, but I'm very much from there as well so I can speak with authority about all of these issues.

  

  Arwa Damon
  • Speak
  • Issues
  • Concepts

• There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

  

  Murray Rothbard
  • Economics
  • Absurd
  • Fairness

• Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Exist
  • Concepts
  • Scientific Investigator

• We must find ways to rework our concepts and practices of human virtue and identity as they have been conceived, since at least the time of the Greeks, as exclusive of and discontinuous with the devalued orders of the feminine, of subsistence, of materiality and of non-human nature.

  

  Val Plumwood
  • Identity
  • Virtue
  • Ways

• Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

  

  Richard Matheson
  • Standards
  • Concepts
  • Normalcy

• Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Development
  • Concepts
  • Scientific Progress

• Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully.

  

  Roma Downey
  • Simple
  • Difficult
  • Talking

• The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Happened
  • Phenomenon
  • Shamanism

• God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Time
  • Way
  • Religious

• Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Politics
  • Concepts

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