Description Quotes

518 quotes by 442 authors

If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of… — Vinton Cerf
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more… — Thomas Cahill
We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they have to deceive… — Richard Wiseman
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured… — Robert Genn
A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress… — H P Lovecraft
The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark Card descriptions of… — Frederick Lenz
The truly enlightened are not necessarily very religious. Religon is a convienent description to take care of our fears, to passify us. — Frederick Lenz
Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman… — Frederick Lenz
Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness. — Frederick Lenz
Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description of the world… — Frederick Lenz
Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is. — Frederick Lenz
In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is carrying around. — Frederick Lenz
Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But… — Frederick Lenz
As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs. — Frederick Lenz
Build a shield between yourself and the descriptions of the world that everyone else has. — Frederick Lenz
It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence of encountering the… — Peter London
Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation — Queen Elizabeth II
Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be… — Cressida Cowell
Lying to the American people wasnâ€™t part of my job description. — Ralph W. Moss
I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and… — August Wilson

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