Quotes About Specificity

With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.

Fiction should be specific rather than general, because people are specific.

It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.

It was like seeing someone who wore a striped tie or parted his hair on the left — a detail, but not a telling one.

My rule is, if you want to build something that does all things for all people, it's not going to work real well.

Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.

I try to be as specific as possible when saying 'Arab Muslims' because there are a lot of different Muslims. I've never really seen stories about us in America, at least where you had versions of our characters that weren't framed by violence.

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

He hadn't realized until this moment how powerful a being this was, hadn't known it could wield physical objects against him, although, in a weird way, such a real-world concern took some of the edge off the fear he felt, giving a tangible specificity to the more primal terror he'd experienced until now. Something brushed past him, something hairy, and in an instant that primal fear was back.

In high art and pure science detail is everything.

I have enormous affection for Bill Simmons and not just in an abstract way but a very specific way.

hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole.

Being vague is the enemy of a good label.

Je suis devenu pompier parce que je voulais sauver des gens. Mais j'aurais dû être plus précis. J'aurais dû citer des noms.

Being specific matters. Kennedy would have bored the world had he cast a vision for a "highly competitive and productive space program." Instead, he defined the ambition specifically and as such inspired a nation: "We're going to put a man on the moon.

Once again we are faced with a choice of "all or nothing." If we make use of technique, we must accept the specificity and autonomy of its ends, and the totality of its rules. Our own desires and aspirations can change nothing.

Fuzzy and unspecific prayers see fuzzy and unspecific results. God

The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.

He says again that he will not hurt her, she must not be scared, he will not hurt her, he will not, he promises, the words whispered in his new rasping voice. And then he hurts her anyway. The pain is startling, and curious in its specificity

One day it happens: what you have feared all your life, the unendurably specific, the exact thing. No matter what you say or do.

I'm very moody when it comes to food. Even before pregnancy I would just get very specific with things that I wanted.

The more faith you have, the more specific your prayers will be. And the more specific your prayers are, the more glory God receives.

God does not answer vague prayers.

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.