#concrete

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#concrete #gives #individuality #makes #them

It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#approach #been #concrete #deciding #down

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

#concerts #concrete #first #i #ones

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

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#detail #fixated #i #i may not #like

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#assumption #become #concrete #direction #experience

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#bugged #burglars #caught #clues #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

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#capital #concrete #even #guarantee #his