The more particular you make something, the more universal…

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Sometimes I would write something that was so private, people would say, 'Make it more universal.' I never liked that idea. I always thought…

— Jane Wiedlin

Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

— Nas

The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.

— Brian Molko

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

— Stanley Hauerwas

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

— Austin O'Malley

Certainly in order to understand the natural world one needs clarity, logic, and the capacity for theory building. But that understanding tends to improve…

— Talal Asad

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for…

— Rudolf Arnheim

It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than…

— Cheryl Strayed

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens…

— Dominic Monaghan

I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem I ever…

— Andrew Wiles

If you have more downforce, everything becomes much easier. Drivers drive better, engineers they have more room for setup, the tyres are working better…

— Robert Kubica

Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's…

— Don Johnson