Concepts Quotes

A learning experience. When they go out into the world, they'll understand the concepts, what it takes to be a winner in life. - Joe Rice

[The offense] is not going to be exactly the same, but there are influences from Mike and coach Reade. It's not the same Wing-T, but still the same concepts. - Tim Beagle

[Our retail stores were] PC showrooms before, with workstation displays, ... Now we've gone to a full retail store designed for the way people shop. We built the stores around the concepts of create, manage, knowledge, play, and relax. - Bill Parker

[One idea he has goes back to curriculum alignment. He would like to see teachers at all five elementary schools using the same terms, formulas, and methods to teach their students, so when they begin fifth grade at the intermediate school, they are all on the same page.] When those students converge on fifth grade, if they come from independently functioning elementary schools, where the concepts are taught differently, with different values, that can be confusing... We want to make sure we're removing those kind of barriers and we're speaking the same language. - Richard Montgomery

[Hickel:] Karl Marx's key error is the idea that capitalism develops according to laws, that these laws are described by the tendency of the profit rate to drop, and that in the long run the system must collapse. This hypothesis has proven to be wrong, because capitalism has repeatedly found new ways of dealing with its crises. Through this inevitability of capitalism, Marx underestimates the need for political shaping. ... Marx fundamentally underestimated the nature of liberal democracy, he didn't comprehend liberal democracy. Concepts such as tolerance, civil rights and liberties, parlamentarianism - all these categories went totally unrecognised by Marx, and that had fatal consequences. - Paul Nolte

[And yet talk to Hollywood and the establishment that should be crushing him seems in awe instead:] He's obviously a very brilliant guy... have some revolutionary ideas and interesting concepts and we have been talking with them. - Dan Glickman