Quotes about Descriptions

Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down. Votes: 4

Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way. Votes: 3

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations. Votes: 2

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. Votes: 2

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations. Votes: 2

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. Votes: 2

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. Votes: 2

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'. Votes: 2

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences. Votes: 2

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess. Votes: 2

For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how the brain works, there is no match for Oliver Sacks. Votes: 2

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal. Votes: 2

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. Votes: 2

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess. Votes: 2

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist. Votes: 2

I personally believe that I was... a previous life or something... a previous reincarnation, a bard of some sort, because most of the things I write about are descriptions of places I've never been to. Votes: 2

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life. Votes: 2

I find it an absolute pleasure to read travel guides, especially the Michelin guides, and their description of places I know I'll probably never visit. I spend a large part of my life reading descriptions of restaurants. Votes: 2

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. Votes: 2

I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG' on the iPad the other day and it was so interesting to see his descriptions of clothes and places. Votes: 2

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for? Votes: 2

I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas. Votes: 2

When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from. Votes: 2

It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses. Votes: 2

One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them. Votes: 2

I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil. Votes: 2

As a man may know about Africa either by going there personally or by reading descriptions written by travelers who have been there, so may he visit the super-physical realms if he will but qualify himself therefor, or he may learn what others who have so qualified themselves report as a result of their investigations. Votes: 2

Multiple descriptions are better than one. Votes: 0

One single glance will conquer all descriptions. Votes: 0

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses. Votes: 0

Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real. Votes: 0

Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine. Votes: 0

We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. Votes: 0

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not. Votes: 0

. . . a dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions. Votes: 0

All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness. Votes: 0

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality. Votes: 0

Build a shield between yourself and the descriptions of the world that everyone else has. Votes: 0

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. Votes: 0

Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules. Votes: 0

Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions. Votes: 0

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people. Votes: 0

Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there. Votes: 0

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. Votes: 0

...course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned)... Votes: 0

Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable. Votes: 0

But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex. Votes: 0

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films. Votes: 0

Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan. Votes: 0

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is. Votes: 0

Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left. Votes: 0

Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak. Votes: 0

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions. Votes: 0

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. Votes: 0

The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage. Votes: 0

By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people. Votes: 0

People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions. Votes: 0

By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people. Votes: 0

You almost can't avoid having some version of the multiverse in your studies if you push deeply enough in the mathematical descriptions of the physical universe. Votes: 0

Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty. Votes: 0

All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake. Votes: 0

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have." Votes: 0

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work. Votes: 0

One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it. Votes: 0

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city. Votes: 0

The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence. Votes: 0

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force. Votes: 0

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted. Votes: 0

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity. Votes: 0

There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood Votes: 0

Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It's the causes and the consequences and the meaning of it that are interesting, not the anatomical descriptions. Votes: 0

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions. Votes: 0

If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality. Votes: 0

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases. Votes: 0

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things. Votes: 0

When you consider how many millions of workdays begin with hangovers great and small, it is mildly ­surprising to find how few real descriptions of the experience our literature can boast. Votes: 0

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health. Votes: 0

One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a 'binge' writer - like a binge drinker. I go on binges. Votes: 0

[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion. Votes: 0

I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions. Votes: 0

A good story or a book is all about it's power to hold it's readers still till the very last word of it's climax - complexity in language, dialogues, descriptions, everything else is secondary! Votes: 0

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely. Votes: 0

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist Votes: 0

Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased. Votes: 0

This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them; this is a language they know. They know what to do with`disease'. They know how to attach a doctor's medical descriptions to hope. Votes: 0

Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill. Votes: 0

One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly dangerous. Actually, it's just one more bullshit political philosophy. Votes: 0