Concrete Quotes

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.

Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.

But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.

Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal site the text shouldn't draw attention to itself, only to its subject.

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise apartment building. That was very innovative at the time.

You need a blueprint to build a house because you need to know how far the concrete is going to be poured and you need to know how think the walls have to be.

If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.

Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

I don't like concrete jungles.

I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.

In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig.

I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.

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

He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

It's very important to set your place in a concrete environment. I think Chekhov said that the important thing when you have a play or any kind of novel is to set the roots in a concrete place.

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.

The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.

The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.

When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or modifying.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

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

To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.

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

What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.

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

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

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

Even in this nuclear thing, [ Donald Trump] says we should be stronger and expand. What does that mean? So, what is concrete in what he's saying?

If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete!

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).