Best 71 quotes in «concrete quotes» category

I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time.

It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.

It is in [the] process of making something... that the creator contacts a concrete reality outside his subjective life and moves into the realm of the transcendent.

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin. And people discuss it in a way that makes it seem so impersonal. But globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.

Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.

No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself. (Genevieve Behrend)

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.

‎Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.

The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that I do, but it's something to aim for).

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete.

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 representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

A concrete city creates concrete-people! But what the humanity needs is flower-people, cloud-people, stream-people, butterfly-people, and forest-people!

When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's going to unmake us all - smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade.

...America was supposed to be a place ruined and homogenized by highways, that that was its unique character, crass and vulgar sameness.

Her zaman en tepedekini, en itinalıyı, en esaslıyı, en olağandışı olanı, hem de daima sadece en aşağılığın ve en yüzeyselin ve en bayağının fark edildiği yerde talep etmemiz gerçekten de hasta ediyor insanı. İnsanı ileriye götürmüyor, öldürüyor onu. Yükselişi beklediğimiz yerde çöküşü görüyoruz, umudumuz olduğu yerde umutsuzluğu görüyoruz, kendi hatamız bu, kendi şanssızlığımız.

We need a big debate in society about how we are going to shape Europe and tame capitalism. A government must provide direction and make concrete proposals. It is one of Angela Merkel's biggest failings that she doesn't do this.

Concrete breathes sun's heat.

God has purpose for every man to fulfill certain tasks and attain concrete goals

It's hard to push up against a wall, when you are the wall.

I feel like crying. There's something so sad about broken concrete.

New projects are interesting when goals are grounded by the hunger to discover and integrate. The elusive are made concrete in such ways

Nature has no beauty forbidden Manmade concrete slab: guilt-ridden Wings or leaves whatever we may care Those limbs with the birds only trees will share

Time is a concrete product

Teaching is a dialogue, and it is through the process of engaging students that we see ideas taken from the abstract and played out in concrete visual form. Students teach us about creativity through their personal responses to the limits we set, thus proving that reason and intuition are not antithetical. Their works give aesthetic visibility to mathematical ideas.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of our technical calculation to be ultimately concrete and "fundamentally real," while our most intimate experiences are labelled "mere appearance" and something having reality only within the closet of the isolated mind. Suppose however we were to invert this whole scheme, reverse the order in which it assigns abstract and concrete. What is central to our experience, then, need not be peripheral to nature. This sunset now, for example, caught within the network of bare winter branches, seems like a moment of benediction in which the whole of nature collaborates. Why should not these colours and these charging banners of light be as much a part of the universe as the atoms and molecules that make them up? If they were only "in my mind," then I and my mind would no longer be a part of nature. Why should the pulse of life toward beauty and value not be a part of things? Following this path, we do not vainly seek to assemble the living out of configurations of dead stuff, but we descend downwards from more complex to simpler grades of the organic. From humans to trees to rocks; from "higher grade" to "lower grade" organisms. In the universe of energy, any individual thing is a pattern of activity within the flux, and thereby an organism at some level.

When faced with unbridled wildness of reality, dinosaurs fall into fevered delusions of grandeur. In fits of madness, they recreate the world in their own overblown image, bull-dozing the wild and replacing it with a wasteland that reflects their own emptiness. Where there was once the incredibly complex diversity of nature, there is now the dead simplicity of asphalt and concrete.

The city is physical, concrete," Pedro [da Luz] said. "When we make a mistake, it is a mistake that will last for forty, fifty years. That's a problem.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.