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Concrete Quotes

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

Pierre Schaeffer

Music Sound Concrete Stage Contrast

The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to decide if this physical thing is true. There is no room for interpretation.

Richard G. Scott

Book True Visualize Concrete Room

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

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Beyond Difficult Concrete Get Like

We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.

Reality Meaning Want Mean Concrete

I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other.

Goals Small Build Way Concrete Same

There were times when I'd go to lawyer auditions, and everyone's in a suit, and I'm covered in concrete and paint.

Jake McLaughlin

Lawyer Go Concrete Everyone Paint

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.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Past Believe I Believe Try Concrete

One of the most obvious reasons to start using timber rather than concrete is that it's the one commonly grown and therefore exceptionally renewable building material that we have available to us. And it acts as storage for carbon dioxide.

Building Start Concrete Storage Us

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

Ian Hamilton Finlay

I Can Sometimes Write Concrete Would

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.

Glitter America Vegas Concrete ID

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Evil Product Concrete Ability Make

I'm a situationist when it comes to anything creative, and that stands with the visual part of anything I do as well. I deal with the concrete things I have in front of me, and I think that's a wise way to be.

Creative Wise Me Think Way Concrete

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

Jorge Luis Borges

Art Concrete Always Individual

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.

Ice Fast I Can Go Concrete How

Architects often have a mindset where you solve a problem, so you have a set of needs that you have to address. Often I feel that my projects have to have concrete applications.

Mindset Feel Problem You Concrete

In my opinion, an album has a story from start to finish and has a concrete concept.

Opinion Start Story Concrete Finish

We're actually helping advance HTML5 in some very concrete ways, such as Edge, which is in beta.

Edge Concrete Helping Some Advance

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

David R. Brower

Sea Concrete Open Waste Tried Held

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

Theodor W. Adorno

Responsibility Wrong Concrete

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

Hope Government Help Concrete Big

I don't like the word 'abstractions' very much because most people don't think in abstractions. That is too difficult for them. They think in stories. And the best stories are not abstract; they are concrete.

Yuval Noah Harari

Best People Think Difficult Concrete

I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.

Water Find More Concrete Absurd

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Poetry Confused Bad Concrete Up

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Law Advertising First Concrete Avoid

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