Elaboration Quotes

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No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account. — Winston Churchill
Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of this… — Wilhelm Wundt
All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule. — Lewis Thomas
Up till now, we can suppose, nervous systems solved the Now what do I do? problem by a relatively simple balancing act between a strictly… — Daniel Dennett
Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can… — Mark Twain
The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date,… — Antonio Gramsci
Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing,… — Edward Said
My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life, the reality it… — Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal… — Harry Seidler
Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of… — Bill Bryson
In a word, what characterizes the spiritist revelation is that while divine in its origin and of the initiative of the Spirits, its elaboration is… — Allan Kardec
Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work. — William Morris Hunt
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we… — Trofim Lysenko
While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is… — Walter J. Phillips
No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism. — George Bernard Shaw
Radio is a wonderful medium, but the clock is very unforgiving, and the discussion of this matter included in the interview as originally recorded had… — Jack Miles
The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It… — Carl Jung
It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration… — Tom Stoppard
Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have… — C.S. Lewis
I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is… — Vincent Van Gogh

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