Diffuseness Vs Specificity Quotes

#1. 2. Stay lean and flexible

Peter Thiel

#2. Showing up to school without knowing what classes i'm taking or where the classroom are located. the worst one was showing up for exams i hadn't studied for

Ellen Schreiber

#3. I am looking for a future for myself. I like to hear about the possibilities of others.

Kathryn Stockett

#4. When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

Aeschylus

#5. I like to play women who are not strong at all, because, there's certainly plenty of myself that is no kind of a warrior.

Nick Offerman

#6. [He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for echoes. Here the lion and the hartebeest lay together, here the jackass became a unicorn.

Ray Bradbury

#7. When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

Yoko Ono

#8. poo parlor division" instead of "loo.

Louise Rennison

#9. Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I would rather read.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#10. It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

George Orwell

#11. I'm very opinionated, very intelligent and not afraid to show that.

Katori Hall

#12. Swallowing, she studied his lips, then kissed them - warm, ever so soft, disappointingly unresponsive.
"I want to kiss you. Only you, husband. Will you ever let me in?" she whispered.

Amy Jarecki

#13. Someone knocked on the door. "Come in!" Barabas called. The door swung open and Derek stuck his head in. "Hey, do you have any duct tape?" He saw me, stepped back, and closed the door without a word. Well. "Coward," Barabas said, loud enough for Derek to hear.

Ilona Andrews

#14. In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.

Annalee Newitz