Quotes About Specificity

Everything we do on 'Luck' is absolutely no different than if we'd had been doing it in a feature film. There's no short cuts. The specificity of what every single line might mean. Everything Dustin Hoffman does. Kevin Dunn is as authentic in the last scene of the last episode as he is in the first scene of the first episode.

I like comedy that's very specific and isn't afraid to lose people through its specificity.

Love is universal, luckily, but also in general I've found that whenever I've been the most specific in my stand-up, revealing some weird neurosis or quirk I'm ashamed of, that's what people relate to the most. Specificity is key!

Finally, remember this fundamental principle: the more you narrow the field, the better and more safely you will work. Always prefer a monograph to a survey. It is better for your thesis to resemble an essay than a complete history or an encyclopedia.

sake of exactness

if merely for the sake of exactness in all points

As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.

The more specific you are the more general it'll be.

To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping.

staging journey. You need to have more than the general idea of "fix it up and make it look better." What are you going to do specifically? Are you going to paint? Put in flowers? Add shutters? Change the carpet? You need an actual working list to check off instead of just winging it.

Essentially these books consist of asking the reader to forget about the forest of Churchill's life and instead focus on a few trees that a given writer believes deserve more attention

The term 'niche' is no longer pejorative.

We live in a niche world.

Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.

Within these strangely specific conditions, everything is perfect. We are perfect.

If I've learned anything from two decades of fantastique writing it's that the more extraordinary the subject matter the more specific the details need to be.

One of the calamities of Christianity is our tendency to talk in ambiguous generalities.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

The more money you spend, the more you need to make back, and the more pressure there is to appeal to everyone - which to the studio means that the specificity and uniqueness must be watered down. But I think mass audiences like things that are more specific and tend to have a voice, like 'Napoleon Dynamite' or 'Superbad.'

The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.

From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don't write political plays.

The more particular you make something, the more universal it becomes.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.