Specificity Quotes
Specificity Quote of the day
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.
The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.
I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.
Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.
One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.
This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.
I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it.
What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.
I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.
What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.
I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.
Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment. It's what's between us and chaos.
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.
I think something that I can't name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
When you are able to overcome distractions, then you will be able to do something more specific, something more precise and definite with the time that you have.
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!", May 10, 1886)