Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.