Abstract Thinking Quotes
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
— Don Delillo
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Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations;
short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.
— Brian D. McLaren
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships.
— Kerry Washington
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
— Maya Angelou
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The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible.
— Saul Bass
Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking;
it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.
— Bill T. Jones
When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.
— Julie Taymor
When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future.
— Sayings
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's not about facts, it's about feelings.
It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.
— Agnes Martin
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
— Newt Gingrich
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
— Brigham Young
But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience.
— Romare Bearden
Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
— Dag Hammarskjold
We often judge cities by great public buildings.
But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.
— Daniel Libeskind
I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.
— Steve Jobs
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When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.'
— Niels Bohr
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.
— Rem Koolhaas
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
— Michelle Obama
Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract.
Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.
— William James
We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory.
— Walter Bagehot
It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.
— William Hazlitt
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who yu are.
— Chinese Proverbs
The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A form if it breathes some, if it has some enigma to it, it is also the enigma that is the abstract, I would think.
— Beauford Delaney
Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity.
.. But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view.
— Daniel H. Pink
Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
— Nelson Mandela
The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest.
— Josiah Royce
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
— Willem de Kooning
I never use nature as a starting point.
I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
— Adolph Gottlieb
First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.
Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking.
A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.
— Diane Glancy
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
— Teresa de Lauretis
Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Speak with honesty, think with sincerity, act with integrity.
We think about the world in all ways we experience it ;
we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
— Ken Robinson
Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.
— Werner Herzog
I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.
— Joe Bradley
Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
Most great filmmakers are good at place.
Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you know? I'm so interior. I always forget there's such a thing as an exterior wide shot, where you can see where someone is. As opposed to just: how can we show what this person is thinking, in an abstract way that is felt?
— Miranda July
The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.
— Sufjan Stevens
Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it. They'll love it or hate it or enjoy it on their own, like how I've looked at abstract paintings of other artists and cried or felt happy because I've felt, "Wow, I've lived that, I've understood that."
— Jose Parla
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you dont fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
— Rafael Vinoly
I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.
— Cindy Sherman
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