Explaining Quotes
322 quotes by 298 authors
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Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were…
— Ben Bernanke
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I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few…
— Anita Hill
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The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.
— Laura Miller
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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
— Myrtle Reed
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It is often stated that when an Angel descends to the earth, it brings with it a part of the light of the heavens, thus…
— James R. Lewis
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The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.
— Jonah Lehrer
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The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
— Charles C. Mann
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Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin.
— Sara Nelson
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The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true revelation of his…
— Jean-Pierre de Caussade
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You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out…
— Carrie Brownstein
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It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of…
— Charles Lyell
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Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.
— Paul Davies
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I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit?…
— J. Michael Bishop
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The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used, but these have…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining something I don't…
— Vassily Ivanchuk
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This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling
— Adriana Trigiani
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It's perhaps not so much how your amygdala is tuned that makes you politically extreme, but that your intrinsic nervousness makes you more responsive to…
— Robin Dunbar
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For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject is…
— Keith Devlin
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Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are the economy and…
— John L. Casti
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If you have a dream , don't waste your energies explaining why.
— Paulo Coelho
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