Explicit Quotes

144 quotes by 136 authors

The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician,… — Alexander Grothendieck
I don't know how I could have been more explicit. I gave them a roadmap and a flashlight, but they didn't go where I told… — Harry Markopolos
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. — Samuel Richardson
To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham. — Larry Wall
The pack includes analysis and summary forms as well as very explicit links between assessment and individualised intervention...these materials are often lacking in published therapy… — Linda Armstrong
Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written… — Robert P. Crease
Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'Ãªtre of the [New Deal programs].… — Richard Allen Epstein
Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as… — Margaret Mead
Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not… — Richard Pascale
Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution. — Carolyn Maloney
Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues at… — Gerhard Richter
I'm afraid that, in this chapter we must talk about sex in a very explicit manner, because we want to expand the Frontiers of Human… — Dave Barry
I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells… — Rosie Perez
It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms. — Arthur Keith
I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about. — M. Ward
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. — James Mark Baldwin
The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have… — Randa Abdel-Fattah
Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong. — Gary Ackerman
My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it,… — Jesse Eisenberg
When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not… — Samuel Alexander

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