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Quotes About Specified

taken. There is so much intelligibility and specified complexity in this world that it seems willful and prejudiced to try to explain it away with no intelligence behind it. Can morality, personality, and reality be reasonably explained without a personal, moral first cause?
~ Ravi Zacharias
Orma had given me a timepiece that emitted blasphemy-inducing chirps at whatever early hour I specified.
~ Rachel Hartman
Ethan knew the word for one of exceptional import. Almost everybody in the neighbourhood had "troubles," frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had "complications." To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death-warrant. People struggled on for years with "troubles," but they almost always succumbed to "complications.
~ Edith Wharton
If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.
~ Alexander Hamilton
The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.
~ James K. Polk
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had "troubles," frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had "complications." To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years with "troubles," but they almost always succumbed to "complications."
~ Edith Wharton
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit
~ Edith Wharton
The term specified complexity is, therefore, a synonym for specified information or information content. (See Fig. 4.8.)
~ Stephen C. Meyer
the kind of information that DNA contains, namely, functionally specified information.
~ Stephen C. Meyer
The entire notion of biography is grounded in the arbitrary ascription of a causal relation between specified traits and subsequent events.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The entire notion of biography is grounded in the arbitrary ascription of a causal relation between specified traits and subsequent events. Now
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
His concern was that if there were a few rights specified in the Constitution, future generations may forget that those are just examples and that the Constitution itself protects all human rights.
~ Thom Hartmann
As Peter Drucker wrote: "In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined. 'What are the expected results from this work?' is . . . the key question in making knowledge workers productive. And it is a question that demands risky decisions. There is usually no right answer; there are choices instead. And results have to be clearly specified, if productivity is to be achieved."*
~ David Allen
A well-drawn contract would typically include a provision stipulating the sales volume claimed by the seller and requiring the seller to work in the business for a specified amount of time. If the store did not achieve the sales the seller claimed it to have, the buyer could back out of the deal.
~ Unknown