#concepts

George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that. ↗

— John Dykstra

#camera #concepts #doing #george #george lucas

I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up. ↗

— George Benson

#future #gives #going #good #guitar

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#carry #case #challenge #concepts #cost

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time. ↗

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

#black holes #concepts #construction #elements #holes

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work. ↗

— Hal David

#concepts #done #ideas #just #song

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#analysis #concepts #mathematics #physics #rests

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. ↗

— Flora Lewis

#arisen #aspiration #concepts #democracy #dignity

The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals. ↗

— Cliff Shaw

#concepts #express #ideals #joss #pure

The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called "model agnosticism" and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. Alfred Korzybski, the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, "The map is not the territory." Alan Watts, a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as "The menu is not the meal. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#knowledge #philosophy #science #experience

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#philosophy #theory #words #money