Particular Quotes
In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.
Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.
meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind.
I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.
Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.
When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.
The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.
And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I’m not narrating a particular story. I’m just addressing experiences.
We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.
The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.
Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.
Safety is knowing that when this particular life form is finished, what it has served remains.
The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.
A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.
Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.
It isn't easy to be frank with yourself. But, if you wish to find your particular success in life, it is the most rewarding reaction of them all.
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
When there's an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has, whereas vitamins are a general "nice to have" market.
Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.
I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!
I don't face any particular problems as a woman president because I have been a professional for a long time. I keep telling people: I am a technocrat who happens to be a woman.
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
After realizing a principle, unless you learn it with your body you cannot expect to get true understanding. Scholars in particular tend to learn in theory only.
There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.
... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.