Particular Quotes
I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.
"Tiger is a natural kind" and "Tiger is a historical particular" are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason for favoring the latter over the former.
Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.
I had lots of posters on my bedroom wall of players like Zico, many Brazilian and Italian players, not many players in particular but I loved football so much and I especially loved skilful players.
I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.
Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.
To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.
I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.
In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.
My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.
From my sketch files I'll find a pose that shows the emotion behind a particular character's story.
A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation
Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
I think only a person who's studied WITH someone for many years is in a position to voice a true opinion about a particular teacher.
We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.
The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.
As a seer, I naturally can see the evolutionary potential of a being. But the potential will not necessarily be actualized. A particular being will not necessarily realize their full height.
Everyone is psychic. Being psychic is not a particular talent. Everybody has a left foot. Some people may just walk with that foot, some people may drag it, and some may learn to dance with it.
We seek absolute neutrality in Buddhism. We don't want to be drawn into anything in particular. We don't want to be pushed away from anything in particular.
The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light.
I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence.
My particular focus at the moment is on the development of genetic algorithms and neural networks that work together to create computer architectural systems.
I personally don't subscribe to any particular cosmology or beleif system. I'm a seer.
What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We really aren't anything in particular. We can be anything. That's the good news.
You are not anyone or anything in particular. You are awareness itself. You don't have a particular form. You contain everything or you are contained by all things.
There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.
You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of being.
This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment.
The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.
The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.
What you have to do is just walk into the light. Then you find that it doesn't burn, and it's not particular frightening.
With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.
The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to that source, to your spiritual teacher or to a particular god or goddess.
Never expect anything from a particular meditation. Once you have gotten started, different methods get you into the stream, let the meditation take you wherever it would like to.
There are physical karmas. They are reactions and results from actions. But those are bound to a particular lifetime.
Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters.
Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them.
I was very concerned about who was going to take my story and realize it, so I was very particular and spent a lot of time going over things with him, talking about how I wanted it to be told.
If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.
The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.
Very well, Lord Maccon. If we are going to play this particular hand, would you be interested in becoming my...” “Mistress?
The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.
Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.