Descriptions Quotes

106 Descriptions quotes by 95 unique authors

All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake. — Shunryu Suzuki
Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way. — Wayne Dyer
Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed,… — Unknown Author
By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right… — Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly… — George Carlin
But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were… — Robert Jay Lifton
What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms… — Unknown Author
I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for… — William Wilberforce
Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan. — Calvin Trillin
I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to… — Anton Chekhov
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions… — Alan Watts
It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its… — Frithjof Schuon
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man, they did not… — Francis Parker Yockey
We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male,… — Frederick Lenz
Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down. — Thom Mayne
There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest… — Alan Moore
If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers working… — Gottfried Leibniz
I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm… — Anton Chekhov
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. — Anton Chekhov
What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people. I'm talking about… — Robert Towne
It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me,… — Jhumpa Lahiri
I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when… — Giacomo Casanova
I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG' on the iPad… — Frank Lampard
Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone… — Kary Mullis
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;… — Samuel Johnson

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