#concrete

I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#against #always #basic #campaigns #concrete

I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#africa #aware #both #concrete #doing

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#classical #classical music #concrete #contrast #expressed

Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather. ↗

— William Hamilton

#bad weather #color #concrete #essentially #weather

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

#always #attain #cannot #concrete #general

Through the wind and the rain She stands hard as a stone In a world that she can't rise above But her dreams give her wings And she flies to a place where she's loved Concrete angel ↗

— Martina McBride

#dreams

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#expression #humanity #literature #outlook #receives

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#animal #boring #bunch #concrete #down

The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience. ↗

— Isabella I

#concrete #distance #experience #firm #great

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague. ↗

— John C. Crosby

#avoid #concrete #cultivate #delightfully #first