Particular Quotes

Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary.

I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?

Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.

Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.

I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

Cézanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle a particular bottle out of a cylinder.

There are so many games that I've seen that I've learned from. I never - that's also part of the same - never single out a particular player or a particular game.

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

I believe that management should focus on two particular areas. One is Gemba (shop floor) and the other is customer (not the shareholder).

Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters.

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.

The true person is Not anyone in particular; But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.

The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.

Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.

You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.

Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

I fell in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal. I grew up in the '90s, which is when The X-Files was at its zenith.

I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.

Life is like a long ride to nowhere in particular.

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.

Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.

Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.