Specificity Quotes

26 quotes by 25 authors

In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can be compared to… — Martinus Beijerinck
Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed in. It entails… — Stephen Batchelor
Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality… — Anatole Broyard
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. — Walter Mosley
Becaise I love God, I want to handle his truth with accuracy, clarity, and specificity. I want to build bridges of understanding from the wisdom… — Paul David Tripp
Record labels, which used to have complete control, are essentially irrelevant. The process of a band exposing itself to the world is extremely democratic and… — Steve Albini
Specificity is the soul of narrative. — John Hodgman
The Universe responds to specificity. — Romany Malco
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene… — Edward Lawrie Tatum
It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all… — Jhumpa Lahiri
If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirmed, then nucleic acids must be regarded as possessing… — Oswald Avery
There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in… — Leslie Orgel
At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it… — Tabitha Soren
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal. — Bonnie Jo Campbell
One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to… — Ross Bleckner
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in… — William Gibson
I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only… — George Saunders
Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau… — James Sallis
I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually… — Ann Aguirre

Who Wrote These Specificity Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 26 Specificity Quotes as follows: