Quotes About Specific

Americans are willing to cheer on politicians who denounce bureaucratic overreach and job-killing red tape in abstract terms. But they turn out to like specific regulations against toxic chemicals in their drinking water.

When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.

I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little far-fetched to me. But maybe I just need to be opened to it.

I've only auditioned for one non-culturally specific role. I went through drama school and studied classic texts and played lead roles in 'Measure for Measure' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' alongside a very culturally diverse group of acting students. But as soon as we graduate and enter the industry, all of those roles fall away.

With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.

I usually start from the most general to the more specific. I'll get an emotional overview for the film as a whole, trying to pinpoint what the musical identity is and come up with thematic ideas - any ideas that identify as succinctly as possible what the film is.

It's funny, when you have a theme so particular to cows - or it could be anything like hair or nails - when you're rapping about a specific thing, you can have more punchlines about it.

I really like writing for specific projects. It's a whole different way of writing when you have certain guidelines and a theme you're writing to. It's very inspiring.

Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.

a single point in space and time.

A fear is a reaction to a specific danger, to which the individual can make a specific adjustment. But what characterizes anxiety is the feeling of diffuseness and uncertainty and the experience of helplessness toward the threat.

The eating of beef was reserved for specific occasions, such as rituals or when welcoming a guest or a person of high status. This is a common practice in other cattle-keeping cultures as well.

To be fair, though, here is one of Trump's few but fairly specific plans for helping the disadvantaged: "Teenage mothers [shouldn't] get public assistance unless they jump through some pretty small hoops. Making them live in group homes makes sense.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

Sometimes roses are wanted for a specific purpose or a special reason. The following selections are somewhat personal and arbitrary, but should provide a springboard in choosing varieties for

Each of us has his or her own distinct personality. But overlaid on top of that are tendencies and assumptions and reflexes handed down to us by the history of the community we grew up in, and those differences are extraordinarily specific.

It's no mystery, it isn't luck. Success is a result of your obedience to specific principles, rules and laws

Your business should serve specific needs for specific demographics of people. That way, your marketing efforts will be more laser-focused and effective.

Well, yeah," says Terry, "they are, but it was only designed for one person.

My butt has specific requirements for pants.

Democrats could never accept the fact that "civil rights" was about correcting specific and severe injustices done to American blacks, principally because they were the ones who had perpetrated the injustices.

The internet is the nerd Israel, a place to speak and listen to spectacularly specific concerns.

Lafayette mania circa 1824 was specific to him and cannot be written off as the product of a simpler, more agreeable time.

If sensory recognition worked on the grandmother principle, the number of specific-recognition neurons for all possible combinations of nerve impulses would exceed the number of atoms in the universe.