The more specific we are, the more universal something can…

I hope that my lyrics have a way that they're so specific they become universal, and they go, 'Oh I've been there, I know…

— Gavin Creel

The more specific you are, the more universal you are.

— Nancy Hale

All of my songs are so hyper-specific - that they can seem universal is a beautiful thing.

— Arlo Parks

The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.

— Shyam Selvadurai

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

— Wendell Pierce

There's always to me a universality - one of the things I learned early on as a journalist and a writer is that there's…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

I definitely don't generalize and put everybody in the same cup of water.

— Cole Hauser

“There was, for starters, the tendency of everyone who actually played the game to generalize wildly from his own experience. People always thought their…

— Michael Lewis

“To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.”

— William Blake

Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.

— Mark Twain

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

— Gish Jen

“To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions.”

— Angela Harris

You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets…

— Lorin Stein

To generalize is to be an idiot.

— William Blake

“When we generalize and judge people quickly without taking ample time, we've chosen a shortcut. It's superficial of us, and a lack of wisdom.”

— Assegid Habtewold