Quotes of Specify - somelinesforyou

“ Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite — that particular peach is but a detail. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Today we define success by publicity and bank accounts. But that's not really success at all. Don't believe the hype. Success is ephemeral. You have to define it yourself. ”

- Chris Noth

“ We're trying redefine Virginia Beach more as a luxury destination. ”

- Richard Brooks

“ When you're telling a story, you've got to give details. ”

- Gao Xingjian

“ It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent. ”

- Ferdinand De Saussure

“ Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up. ”

- Vince Vaughn

“ God is in the details. ”

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“ All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish. ”

- Gustav Mahler

“ I rode horses with cowboys, talked with them and observed many things in details. ”

- Ang Lee

“ We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution. ”

- Harold Wilson

“ We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth… We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. ”

- Buckminster Fuller

“ A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture. ”

- Mick Lloyd Kerman

“ It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise. ”

- Brady Anderson

“ That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ We think in generalities, but we live in detail. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things. ”

- St. Francis De Sales

“ Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details. ”

- Andy Warhol

“ When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ Measure three times before you cut once. ”

- Unknown

“ Measure three times before you cut once. ”

- Unknown

“ Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. ”

- Heraclitus

“ The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“ The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion. ”

- Joan Chittister

“ If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "the quiet acceptance of what is.". ”

- Wayne Dyer
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