Having concrete, strong thoughts is very important.
People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.
I don't think it's physically possible for little kids to know what abstract thought is.
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
I really don't deal with hypotheticals.
Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.
I'm a situationist when it comes to anything creative, and that stands with the visual part of anything I do as well. I deal with the concrete things I have in front of me, and I think that's a wise way to be.
I do not see scales as abstract.
Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.
A woman seldom runs wild after an abstraction. The habitual direction of her mind [is] to dealing with things as individuals rather than in groups
Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.
We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.
Of course, it is the case that conservatism as I envisage it distances itself always from abstract conceptions and tries to find the concrete reality.
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images.
1st Baron Macaulay
Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.
Pragmatism and romance are sort of opposites.
Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.
I hate the word 'rendering,' as it equates to 'pouring concrete' on ideas that demand continuing dialog. 'Trade secrets' imply hoarding of knowledge.
No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!
