Quotes About Elaboration

sigue intrigando la forma en que nuestro cerebro elabora estrategias y las despliega sin revelárselas a sí mismo. Decir que se trata de actos inconscientes me parece impreciso, quizá incluso hipócrita. Yo sabía muy bien que quería a toda costa regresar enseguida a Milán, lo sabía con todo mi ser, pero no me lo decía.

You gotta know the details to paint a really good picture in the reader's mind on what's happening.

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

In the view presented by the Madhyamakavatara (Tib. dbu ma la 'jug pa) the dharmadhatu is to be understood exclusively as freedom from conceptual elaboration. The aspect of primordial wisdom is not explained there. This difference should be understood well.

It is true self, since all conceptual elaboration in terms of self and non-self is totally stilled. It is true happiness, since [even] the aggregates of mental nature and their causes are reversed. It is permanence, since the cycle of existence and the state beyond pain are realized as one.

The [dharmakaya] is purity, since its nature is pure and [even] the remaining imprints are fully removed. It is true self, since all conceptual elaboration in terms of self and non-self is totally stilled. It is true happiness, since [even] the aggregates of mental nature and their causes are reversed. It is permanence, since the cycle of existence and the state beyond pain are realized as one.

The conceptual elaboration consisting of the belief in the existence of a self as it is imputed by the tirthikas and so on, and the conceptual elaboration consisting of the belief in the non-existence of a self as it is imputed by the shravakas and so on, have been totally stilled and pacified without any remainder. Thus it is the perfection of true self.

Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure.

Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics.

symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality…

Not only do we assert that the existentialist doctrine permits the elaboration of an ethics, but it even appears to us as the only philosophy in which an ethics has its place.

proximity/intimacy is not the same thing as connectivity: it is at best an elaboration, at worst a slippage.

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

We might say that the three paragraphs we've just read were in service of increased specification.

just because universal concepts result only from thinking away and leaving out actual and existing determinations, and are therefore the emptier the more universal they are, the use of this procedure is limited to the elaboration of knowledge already acquired.

The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.

I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.

Probably there is no real invention in the modern world, he said. Just a good deal of elaboration on nature.

But when something is easy to imagine, it's often because you've failed to imagine it in sufficient detail.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of intelligence. Speech is the harvest of thought

Plainness was not necessarily simplicity," Frank Lloyd Wright cautioned. "Elimination, therefore, may be just as meaningless as elaboration, perhaps more often is so. To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity." My