Explanatory Quotes

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A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is… — Carlos Castaneda
The Art of War is self-explanatory — Sun Tzu
From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey… — Meredith Willson
Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence. — Martin Seligman
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and… — Ernest Nagel
[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what… — David Quammen
If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory. — Robert Breault
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. — Abraham Lincoln
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive… — Akira Kurosawa
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained… — Georges Canguilhem
Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record. — Gilbert Ryle
But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the most willful and… — David Bentley Hart
But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory -… — David Stove
Programming is an explanatory activity. — Roman Harper
I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish… — Noam Chomsky
It's pretty self-explanatory. If we play well, we know what our picture is. If we don't play well, we'll know what our picture is. — Chase Utley
...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due to external causes.'… — Price Pritchett
I have been using the word 'other' as though it were self-explanatory, yet who the 'other' is must always be something of a mystery. It… — Stephanie Dowrick
Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise. — Norman Macbeth
The word of God has provided nine explanatory designations of the heavenly beings... the first group is forever around God and is said to be… — Pope Dionysius

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