Concrete Quotes

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

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

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.

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

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

In the West, the spirit is separate from the body. In the East these are things that are very real and concrete.

You cannot stop. If there is a concrete wall in front of you, you have to go through it. You can never, ever give up or even think in terms of giving up.

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

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.

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

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.

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

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

Style offers concrete rules you can follow. You can use it as a resource rather than a barrier to feeling good about yourself.

More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.

The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

Black people drink lots of beer. However, you won't see us skiing down a mountain for one, or see us diving for Frisbees on concrete for one.

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown

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

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.

Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.

It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.

...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

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 frustration.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.