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I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail. — Alma Guillermoprieto

It was something like stirring concrete with my eyelashes. — Scott Turow

If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in. — Herbert Benson

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

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual. — Matthea Harvey

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

Concrete can rot. It turns green and black before crumbling away.
Maybe only people from Congo know that. — Eliot Schrefer

Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete. — Glen Cook

Anyone can plan but it takes someone who is agile to understand that their plan is not concrete. — C.J. Holt

Style offers concrete rules you can follow. You can use it as a resource rather than a barrier to feeling good about yourself. — Stacy London

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily. — Pat Summitt

The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us. — Wendell Berry

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality. — Pablo Picasso

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement. — Peter Zumthor

I threw it down the air shaft. There's a concrete floor below. — Ayn Rand

Time is up for my little caravan kingdom. It's time for a window that does not look into concrete. — Leanne Hall

Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete. — Ralph Fletcher

There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete. — Sherry Turkle

In short, it is much easier to see a thing through from the point of view of abstract principle than from that of concrete responsibility. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life. — Ruth Ozeki

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. — Daniel Libeskind

Every thought, good or bad, becomes concrete; it materializes and becomes a reality. — Emile Coue

At ground level Alexanderplatz is a monstrous expanse of grey concrete designed to make people feel small. It works. — Anna Funder

It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

The world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me. — Ralph Ellison

Writing makes it even harder than concrete. Writing makes it hard as diamond. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Learning is stronger when it matters, when the abstract is made concrete and personal. — Peter C. Brown

In the concrete jungle it's sink or swim: you can't be timid or tentative; you have to forge through, make your mark, enter the fray. — Belinda Jones

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic. — George Carlin

Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis — Chandra Talpade Mohanty

At seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ... — John Geddes

Ultimately, it is
through concrete communication practices that participation is put into practice,
maintained, and evaluated. — George Cheney

The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete. — Barney Norris

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all. — Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it. — Chris Matakas

A set and concrete term of attaining a plan mobilizes a man to fulfill it. — Sunday Adelaja

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children. — John Dewey

On the stage on which we are observing it, - Universal History - Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

You can try to change New York, but it's like Jay-Z says: Concrete bunghole where dreams are made up, there's nothing you can do. — LIZ

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to. — Hayley Atwell

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. — Alfred North Whitehead

Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues. — Mona Hatoum

I hate the word 'rendering,' as it equates to 'pouring concrete' on ideas that demand continuing dialog. 'Trade secrets' imply hoarding of knowledge. — Chris Jordan

You know, the big Valbowski is a lot like concrete mix. You know? You just get it a little wet, take a step back, and watch it get ROCK HARD! — Val Venis

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

What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished. — Zaha Hadid

We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action. — Murari Lal Sharma

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience. — Rachel Cusk

A flower does not lose its beauty because it grew on concrete. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village. — Derek Walcott

I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with. — Pankaj Mishra

I was able to see the love of God paving the world around me but I distrusted this knowledge because it was concrete. — Joni Tevis

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it. — Lucy Liu

If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface. — Kevin McCloud

It was a thing as alien to this place and time as true love, and yet as concrete as a Judgment, — Stephen King

Michelle, who was never one to mope around and mince words, had told her to 'take a concrete pill and harden the fuck up' because nobody had it easy. — Sibylla Matilde

As for music, where does it go? The only concrete thing in music is the instrument. — Clarice Lispector

A person who takes a concrete place and convert it into a garden of flowers is a real magician! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

why do people pour water on concrete expecting something to grow from it" AP — Alexis Pettway

Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that. — John F. Kennedy

It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies. — Celso Amorim

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal. — Albert Camus

LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination. — Ayah Bdeir

Nothing is set in concrete the way it typically is when one is, for example, pouring concrete. — Matthew B. Crawford

When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or modifying. — Abdellatif Kechiche

He wondered whether it was his fault Roger had the perceptiveness of concrete. — Helen Simonson

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path. — David Antin

A commitment to the concrete does more than just ease communication; it can lead to better reasoning. — Steven Pinker

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. — Desmond Morris