Particular Quotes

Clear focus is the mind’s magic wand. It points your creativity in a particular direction and channels your experience behind it. Wherever you clearly focus, you create.

The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.

Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.

There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.

As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!

The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.

I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.

Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.

The film [Close Up] made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn't directing the actors so much as being directed by them. So it was a very particular film.

Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

I like people and I like hearing their stories. The way that they deliver them is always very particular and I think that their accents are integral to that.

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

Who you truly are is a place of no particular thing, but all things at once.

Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.

Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.

I honesty feel that each film has its own particular challenges.

he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.

I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.

The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

I love being on movie sets. It's a very particular setting. And not all of the time, most of the time, there's always people you don't like, and you have to see them every day.

There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery.

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

You never want to be pigeonholed into something and have people think, "Oh, that's the guy we call for this particular thing."

As beings who cannot know the outcome of any particular action, it is difficult for us to act in a way that will be necessarily beneficial to another, or necessarily detrimental.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life.

I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.

That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.

By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.

I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors understand that that's part of the craft.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.

The older I get, and the more I travel in particular, the less I care about what exactly is in the dish than who's cooking it and why.

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.