Conception Quotes

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.

Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence

[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles.

The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.

We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

I am pro-life, I believe human life begins at conception. I also believe that embryonic stem cell research should be encouraged and supported.

The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.

No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.

I like storms. I like thunder and lightning. What I do during a storm is shag my girlfriend and pretend that we're taking part in the conception of the Antichrist.

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision in man's conception of the universe and his relation to it

People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process.

Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.

The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.

Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

Vision is a conception that is inspired by God in the hearts of Human

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.

What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.

The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.

The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression.