Quotes About Specificity

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

God dwells in the details.

God was in the details.

I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room.

No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health. But specific claims when made in print are taken at their value

I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.

I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.

Don't boo people! Don't boo! Be more specific! Like, 'WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT?! I HATE THAT! I HATE IT!'

Generally speaking, I try not to generalize.

When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.

At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.

All my life I wanted to be someone I guess I should have been more specific.

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

With an eye trained for finding this God, an ear tuned to his voice, we learn to find him again and again. Every beloved loves her lover in his specificity—his face, his hands, his voice— and love leads her to "act in all respect and regulate her every movement in a manner designed to please the man she loves".

No is easier to do, yes is easier to say. No is no to one thing. Yes is no to a thousand things. No is a precision instrument, a surgeon's scalpel, a laser beam focused on one point. Yes is a blunt object, a club, a fisherman's net that catches everything indiscriminately. No is specific. Yes is general.

So to clarify the feedback under the label we need to "be specific" about two things: (1) where the feedback is coming from, and (2) where the feedback is going.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

We're not trying to be everything for everybody. We're not trying to please the masses.

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

One of the things I've come to appreciate about the brain is the importance of location. It's not just a set of interchangeable parts that you can swap in and out.

But you're worth crying over. So i've decided you're staying here with me all night - or at least until I've given you twenty-seven orgasms.' Gina found herself a bit breathless. 'Twenty-seven? That's a very specific number.' 'I'm a very specific sort of man. Now each up.

What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.