Concrete Quotes

Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.

The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.

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

If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete.

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

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.

Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.

New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.

If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.

I believe more in concrete spirituality rather than in a spirituality that is divided from the body and from nature.

You can try to change New York, but it's like Jay-Z says: Concrete bunghole where dreams are made up, there's nothing you can do.

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.

History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

There is not substantial data that AZT stops the transmission of HIV from mother to child. There is too much conflicting data to make concrete policy.

Social embedded business processes that solve concrete needs are key to enterprise social collaboration.

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

Commies love concrete.

I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.

My published works are concrete evidence that I exist.

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.

Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty.

Succesful people are all dreamers. A dream becomes an idea and then something concrete. I think it all starts with a dream.

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

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

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

When I was still at school, I'd help Dad at the concrete yard he had prior to the garden centre. I was doing things there, like driving the tractors and forklifts, that most kids my age couldn't.

Once you leave Sundance suddenly you run into bulldozers and concrete and cranes, and all that heritage that the Mormon culture used to be so proud of is turned into out of control develpoment.

I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language.

Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

We have already begun taking concrete steps to change the structure of our economy and, as we have discussed a great deal, to give it a more innovative quality.

As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.