Explicit Quotes

Explicit Quote of the day

Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.

No religion, I'm just so explicit, I coexist in places you would never know existed.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

I've been putting out sexually explicit images of myself for years. I know this sounds bizarre, but somehow it makes me feel safer.

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Developing an explicit decision-making process upfront for how you will make that decision will help alleviate conflict and gridlock when you actually need to decide.

She goes to Frederick's of Hollywood at the mall and purchases an explicit lingerie outfit so sheer that you could read an appliance warranty through it in an unlit closet.

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

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.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.

If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.

There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

I like the concept of shooting beautiful, aesthetic, cinematographic pieces, and still allowing them to be explicit

In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write.

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 and original book.

While "9 Songs" is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.

A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.

From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.

By creating explicit occasions to invite dissenting viewpoints on a new project, strategy or policy, leaders enable employees to feel that their questions are welcomed and appreciated.