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«No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.»
«Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.»
Author: Krzysztof Kieslowski
| Keywords:
concrete
«My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
| Keywords:
as far as possible, concrete, device, embodies, embody, embodying, improvement, improvements, invention, New Idea, operate, rush
«Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.»
«Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But at the submicroscopic level, specks of matter scattered through a vast emptiness have such incredible density and weight, and are linked to one another by such powerful forces, that together they produce all the properties of concrete, cast iron and solid rock. In much the same way, specks of knowledge are scattered through a vast emptiness of ignorance, and everything depends upon how solid the individual specks of knowledge are, and on how powerfully linked and coordinated they are with one another.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cast iron, concrete, coordinate, coordinated, coordinates, coordinating, density, emptiness, incredible, linked, mostly, one iron, physicist, physicists, powerfully, properties, scattered, solid, specks
«I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.»
Author: W. Clement Stone
(Author, Founder)
| About:
Action,
Vision
| Keywords:
actualize, actualized, actualizing, believing, concrete, dreamers, steps, Think Ahead
«Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, concrete, devotes, enjoying, entirely
«Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost utmost reality.»
«Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.»
«No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
advantage, concrete, entirely, maxims, reservoir, reservoirs, retain, retaining, sentiments, unaffected
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