Concrete
He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always shrunk. I had learned to look more closely at life as it was lived, to recognize that there were such things as facts in the world, to emerge from the realm of mind and idea and to place certain values on the concrete and objective phases of existence.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Concrete, Existence, Opened, Practically, Recognize, World
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.
Author: I.M.PeiTopics: Acceptance, Apartment, Building, Concrete, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Gamble, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Wonderful
I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you’re responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually – the way I see it – your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind
Author: Thom YorkeTopics: Belief, Concrete, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Mind, Responsible, Thoughts
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.
Author: Pierre Teilhard de ChardinTopics: Certainty, Compared, Concrete, Famous, Meaningful, Recognized, Smallest
Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
Author: Muhammad IqbalTopics: Concrete, Famous, Meaningful, Mind, Physiologically, Suitable, Violent
I’m the rose that came from the concrete
Author: Cardi BTopics: Acceptance, Came back, Concrete, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Lesson, Letting, Letting go, Life, Meaningful, Roses
I’m the rose that came from concrete
Author: Cardi BTopics: Concrete, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Lesson, Life, Meaningful, Roses