53 Conceptual Quotes for You to Enjoy

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. Eckhart Tolle

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For a period of time, I carried cameras with me wherever I went, and then I realized that my interest in photography was turning toward the conceptual. So I wasn't carrying around cameras shooting stuff, I was developing concepts about what I wanted to shoot. And then I'd get the camera angle and do the job. Leonard Nimoy

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Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist. Steven Pinker

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another. James Geary

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There is a slight problem with being a conceptual artist these days: You won't get paid. But this levels the field and takes the art of money out of the field of serious art. The only conceptual artists who would conceive of making money on the Internet are a lowbrow species known as hustlers. Andrei Codrescu

Art You Problem Money Internet Field Slight Out Would Only Takes Conceive Days Conceptual Known Making Making Money Get Artist Artists Being Paid Who Serious Species Levels

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about. Andrew Wiles

Mathematics Problem Understanding Thinking Broad Clarify Would Tried Some About Previous Part Particular Particular Problem Conceptual Fit

The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot. Arne Glimcher

Change Sometimes AI Painting Society Carefully Furniture Ancient Rapid Pot Absurd Conceptual Arrangements Artist Chinese Produced Useless Coca-Cola Illustrate

I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited. Barton Gellman

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If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so. Branford Marsalis

Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised. Brian Eno

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Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical. Conrad Wolfram

More Conceptual Practical Maths Should Less Mechanical

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me. Craig Venter

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I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint. Cynthia Rowley

Try Design More Look Conceptual Standpoint

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. Damien Hirst

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Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work. Daniel H. Pink

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After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. David Sedaris

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My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time. Donna Tartt

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Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds. Edmund Morgan

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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research. Edmund Phelps

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I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual. Eleanor Catton

Conceptual Prefer Much Really Novel

At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it. Jai Rodriguez

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