Quotes About Specificity

Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Beauty always takes place in the particular.

People like to be addressed specificlly, it makes them important.

My point is that if you want something to happen, you must specify that something with great care and as much completeness as possible. Then, and only then, can you devise a strategy to accomplish what you really want—all of it—and not some little bit that turns out to be meaningless when everything else falls apart.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

You can't afford for there to be gaps in your pool of knowledge when it comes to a character; otherwise, what ends up onscreen is generalized and unspecific.

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

Remember these rules: Don't say all when you mean most. Don't say most when you mean some. Don't say some when you mean a few. And don't say a few when you mean just one.

When a person asks how he can improve his memory, he cannot expect a useful answer until he makes his question more specific. What kind of material does he want to remember? In what way? [How will his memory be measured?] Under what circumstances? For how long? There are methods and principles in this book that apply to almost any kind of learning situation, but none applies to all situations

But Mariam's grief wasn't aimless or unspecific. Mariam grieved for this baby, this particular child, who had made her so happy for a while. Some days

I believe in haecceity, Sax had said, in thisness, in here-and-nowness, in the particular individuality of every moment. That's why I want to know what is this? what is this? what is this?

I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.

Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Details are all there are.

Vague aspirations lead to vague results; specific aspirations lead to kicking ass.

We fall in love with very specific things and people, so getting mighty clear on the details of your impending richness is critical.

You must be very specific in your wishes or they'll come back to haunt you.

Chacune de mes appartenances me relie à un grand nombre de personnes; cependant, plus les appartenances que je prends en compte sont nombreuses, plus mon identité s'avère spécifique.

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

I've never met a detail I didn't like.

I believe God is in the details.

At the end of the day if you want to effectively market to a target group, you're not going to appeal to everybody. Those companies that try and cater to everybody, end up making everybody not care.