Quotes About Comprehensiveness

The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.

If you see a credit with just my name on it, that means I write absolutely everything: rhythm guitar parts, guitar melodies, vocal melodies... absolutely everything, really.

I want to be an all-around basketball player.

I invented a book that listed every word in every language. It wouldn't be a very useful book, but you could hold it and know that everything you could possibly say was in your hands.

I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?

The speciality of the future is generalism.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

I just want to be able to do it all just because that's what life is.

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.

intelligence should not be looked at as a single gauge, like a speedometer, but as a full array of tachometers, odometers, altimeters,

perhaps intelligence should not be looked at as a single gauge, like a speedometer, but as a full array of tachometers, odometers, altimeters, and the rest.

a major charge of the argument advanced here is that most social science survey findings are not scientific enough. They violate one's common everyday breeze-tasting sense of life precisely because they do not meet the standards of validity, reliability, and comprehensiveness that the best scientists have always insisted on

I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.

Some say: all of the above.

Running gets everything done, doesn't it? Covers it all.

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.

I'm not going to pinpoint one thing, because I've worked hard to try to have all aspects of my game be pretty good. I want to grow everywhere.

Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."7) Most organizations have multiple purposes, and that which is measured and rewarded tends to become the focus of attention, at the expense of other essential goals. Similarly, many jobs have multiple facets, and measuring only a few aspects creates incentives to neglect the rest.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.