Concrete Quotes

All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

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.

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.

Good Governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.

I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.

..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms.

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

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.

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.

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

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

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

( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.

When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing poster art. It was something very concrete.

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

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

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

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

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

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

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesnt get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together. It was dangerous for business as there were no [concrete] plans around the currency or the economy.

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state.We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.

Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds a picture.

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.

During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference.