Conceptually Quotes

#1. Free will is actually more than an illusion (or less), in that it cannot be made conceptually coherent. Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

Sam Harris

#2. In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale.

Rebecca Solnit

#3. Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.

Richard Phillips

#4. As historical texts become rich and conceptually dense, readers may slow down not because they fail to comprehend, but because the very act of comprehension demands that they stop to TALK with their texts. In plain English, they pretend to deliberate with others by talking to themselves.

Sam Wineburg

#5. A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

Cass McCombs

#6. The term 'Being' does not define that realm of entities which is uppermost when these are articulated conceptually according to genus and species: the 'universality' of Being 'transcends' any universality of genus.

Martin Heidegger

#7. Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

Mary McDonnell

#8. Porn puts people to sleep, conceptually and politically as well as erotically.

Naomi Wolf

#9. I see myself as a traditionalist ... I like traditional things. I like things of substance and value that have been proven. Conceptually, as the songs started to come together, I followed that lead, which is the language I work in.

Jakob Dylan

#10. There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of Shaking for my money. Or maybe I'm like our parents: that's my period and I dig it and I'll never leave it.

John Lennon

#11. Physics is an attempt conceptually to grasp reality as something that is considered to be independent of its being observed. In this sense one speaks of physical reality.

Albert Einstein

#12. All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

Joseph Kosuth

#13. Life (as you call it) is an opportunity for you to know experientially what you already know conceptually. You need learn nothing to do this. You need merely remember what you already know, and act on it.

Neale Donald Walsch

#14. Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project contained a good blend of creative sustainable design elements. The solar room for heating and ventilation was particularly creative and convincing.

Edward Mazria

#15. Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.

John L'Heureux

#16. I think the sophomore curse happens when you change every bit of yourself. Though my hair is blonde now, sonically it's still the same girl; conceptually it's still the same girl.

Keri Hilson

#17. We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.

Mike Lowry

#18. The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication ... is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.

Marshall McLuhan

#19. Conceptually, I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others, whether it was a teacher's cruelty to a student, or a student who picked fights with others.

Pierce Brown

#20. When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

David E. Kelley

#21. If the potential of every number is in the monad, then the monad would be intelligible number in the strict sense, since it is not yet manifesting anything actual, but everything conceptually together in it.

Iamblichus

#22. But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually.

Joel Hodgson

#23. What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

Jonathan Ive

#24. Sad hotels existed everywhere, to be sure, but the Dolphin was in a class of its own. The Dolphin Hotel was conceptually sorry. The Dolphin Hotel was tragic.

Haruki Murakami

#25. Yes, I am aware that I have become a caricature. I've thought about this. Conceptually, what I'd like to do is the equivalent of writing myself out of the script.

Phil Collins

#26. But, you know, nobody lives forever. Conceptually these things don't come as a surprise.

Lee Child

#27. Everyday I awake with good health, I credit my bank account with a billion dollar, 'hidden deposit'. Conceptually, the minimum I would pay for it.

Garry Fitchett

#28. What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.

Dalai Lama

#29. I was excited about the fourth movie I guess conceptually because, what I felt we should do it, we should try to make it a conceptual jump like Terminator did to T2. It was still the Terminator franchise, but it was something kind of bigger and grander.

Paul W. S. Anderson

#30. I would like to live to 120, because conceptually, people can survive to 120. Every 20 years, it changes. So maybe, in the next 20 years people can go to space. I don't know what the next revolution will be. I want to watch.

Takashi Murakami

#31. My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

Vera Wang

#32. Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.

Serj Tankian

#33. Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

D.T. Suzuki

#34. Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.

Rain Phoenix

#35. We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

Madeleine L'Engle

#36. still carry around with me a battle between working conceptually - art based on some overriding idea - and my pure carnal sensory love of materials.

Kim Gordon

#37. To make use of your mind to think conceptually is to leave substance and attach yourself to form

Huangbo Xiyun

#38. Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct ... and are experienced differently.

Alfie Kohn

#39. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history.

Coolio

#40. Conceptually, we may call truth what we cannot change; metaphorically, it is the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us.

Hannah

#41. When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Toyin Odutola

#42. I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

Coolio

#43. To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind
is to be crazy, not healthy.

Michael Ventura

#44. Keep fit and have fun!" ~Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod

Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff