It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity. — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
I think something that I can't name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Everything that David Chase does has a tremendous amount of specificity. He is very detail oriented. — John Magaro Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is… — Edward Lawrie Tatum Copy Share Image
I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
We have to be careful that we don't keep multiplying disorders and diluting them. I think there is a difference. People talk… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Important element is deeply understanding our curriculum. Most teachers know what they're going to cover this week or this term. Few of… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Everything we do on 'Luck' is absolutely no different than if we'd had been doing it in a feature film. There's no… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
Record labels, which used to have complete control, are essentially irrelevant. The process of a band exposing itself to the world is… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can… — Martinus Beijerinck Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems with the definition of autism is we keep expanding it. It started as "early infantile autism",… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
“There is a deeper point to be made here, however, having to do with the specificity of everything. One of the great… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Specificity refers to the ability of any medicine to discriminate between its intended target and its host. Killing a cancer cell in… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The sky [above Tehran] was like a star-eaten black blanket, and so far as I could read them its constellations were unfamiliar.… — Peter Levi Copy Share Image
Each crisis is different, has its own specificities, and we need to look at it critically; look at each one in its… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do. — David Slade Copy Share Image
Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of. — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
I like comedy that's very specific and isn't afraid to lose people through its specificity. — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language… — James Avery Copy Share Image
Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
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