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Quotes About Implied

What's great about writing a screenplay is that the subtext of the scene, what is not said, can sometimes be more important that what is said. Again, dialogue serves two basic functions in the scene: Either it moves the story forward or it reveals information about the character.
~ Syd Field
A briefing cascade will only work properly if the organizational structure broadly reflects the task structure implied by the strategy. If it is in conflict with the strategy, it should be changed before anything else.
~ Stephen Bungay
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~ Bram Stoker
The message, never stated but avuncularly implied, is that America's values ought to reflect those of the Walt Disney Company and not the other way around.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Vetinari gave him a look that did not actually employ a raised eyebrow but which implied that one might be forthcoming if the recipient of the look pushed his luck.
~ Terry Pratchett
The best messages in any given negotiation are really implied indirectly, come to the other person based on thinking that you're getting them to do - getting them to get some really solid thought behind their answers. And so a great thing to send someone in an email is, 'Have you given up on this project?'
~ Christopher Voss
4. WHAT OF IT? If the book has given you information, you must ask about its significance. Why does the author think it is important to know these things? Is it important to you to know them? And if the book has not only informed you, but also enlightened you, it is necessary to seek further enlightenment by asking what else follows, what is further implied or suggested
~ Mortimer J. Adler
He made a tck noise in the back of his throat. It expressed all sorts of annoyance and impatience, with just a smidgen of an implied eye roll.
~ Katie MacAlister
Don José es un hombre que, a fuerza de tener que aguantar a su mujer, había conseguido llegar a vivir horas enteras, a veces hasta días enteros, sin más que decir, de cuando en cuando, ¡hum!, y al cabo de otro rato, ¡hum!, y así siempre. Era una manera muy discreta de darle a entender a su mujer que era una imbécil, pero son decírselo claro.
~ Camilo Jose Cela
THE 'THE' IS IMPLIED!
~ Geoff Rodkey
As the resignation letter which I wrote to the Prime Minister clearly implies, it was not the outcome I sought, but it is one that I accept without rancour, despite what might be described as the hard landing involved.
~ Nigel Lawson
It was the oddest of political prejudices that wealth didn't come from work, but rather from something else, a something never really described, but always implied to be suspect.
~ Tom Clancy
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.
~ Jack Woodford
A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.
~ Frantz Fanon
The principle of limited liability was implied: shareholders stood to lose only their investment in the company and no other assets in the event that it failed.15
~ Niall Ferguson
The first word implied a philosophical system, the second a social order, and the third an attitude toward technology; and he concluded that in each category his reader must grasp three fundamental developments.
~ James A. Michener
For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
~ Damien Hirst
A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.
~ Eugene V. Debs
One had followed the rules, and one had not. But the problem with rules... was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time they were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure what side of the line you stood on.
~ Celeste Ng
But the problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When in fact, most of the time there were simply ways.
~ Celeste Ng
though they didn't exactly draw their skirts aside they managed to convey their message.
~ James Herriot
When I go there to Afghanistan or Pakistan, the question both asked - and if it's not asked, implied - is, 'Are you staying this time?' because we left last time, in 1989 in Afghanistan, and we sanctioned Pakistan from 1990 to 2002. So I think it's a fair question.
~ Michael Mullen
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
~ Thomas Griffith
the implied Shakespeare is thoroughly engaged with life, and he does not conceal his judgment on the selfish, the foolish, and the cruel.
~ Wayne C. Booth