I Quotes
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“In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.”
“In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.”
Source: Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
“In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.”
“In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.”
“In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.”
“In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a good story, and as a teacher I'm obliged to consider them all, rather than staying in the safety of my own tendencies.”
“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.”
“In general, the attitude towards Nazi Germany was not that hostile, especially if you look at the U.S. State Department reports. In 1937 the State Department was describing Adolf Hitler as a "moderate" who was holding off the forces of the right and the left.”
“In general, the auditions I go up for are very sparse, I guess because of my ethnicity. And the characters are very similar: shy, innocent and naive; the connotations that come from the way that I look.”
“In general, the best advice I can give people is to take criticism seriously, apologize for anything you have done wrong, and pull back from conflict. Of course, if you are right on a content matter, you should press forward in the interest of quality, but conflict often has a way of taking on a life of its own, unfortunately.”
“In general, the bigger a mountain the older it is. The biggest mountains were built before any others, because when they were built there was incomparably more flammable material within the Earth. Over the many thousands of years that have passed, the quantity of flammable material has doubtless decreased.”
“In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.”
“In general, the few directors that I've worked with that I really respect have taught me a lot about who I am and they've opened me up as an actor. I want to take some of that to apply it to when I'm directing actors.”
“In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.”
“In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.”
Source: 1984
“In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.”
“In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.”
Source: Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
“In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.”
Source: This Business of Living
“In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would not lose out in reasoned argument or be taken by surprise by their quick-witted opponents, they boldly moved into action. Their enemies,on the contrary, contemptuous and confident in their ability to anticipate, thought there was no need to take by action what they could win by their brains.”
“In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.”
“In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since in nature only individuals exist, while genera, orders, and classes only exist in our imagination.”
“In general, the musicians we met that made the most sense just said to do what feels right and try not worry about what other people think. I know that sounds stupid and simple. I feel like Neil Young has done that and he's still making albums. He's one of the people I really look up to as someone who has kind of stuck to their guns their whole career. Just making music for music.”
“In general, the nightmare quality of Marx's thought gives it, in this bedevilled age, an air of greater reality than the gentle complacency of the orthodox academics. Yet he, at the same time, is more encouraging than they, for he releases hope as well as terror from Pandora's box, while they preach only the gloomy doctrine that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”
“In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.”
“In general, the only way to overcome failure is to not let it destroy you. It's that old saying, "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." You just have to keep going.”
“In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.”
“In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.”
“In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.”
“In general, the questions that are on our mind are the same questions that have been driving our work over the past decade. How do we bring order to this messy, unpredictable world of innovation? How can we dramatically improve the chances of creating a successful new-growth business? How can we do this again and again? More specifically, it has become very clear that the fundamental paradigms of market segmentation and branding are badly broken - and we're working on developing more useful theories for these dimensions of innovation.”
“In general, the Western body has become a global brand.”
“In general, there are patients with insomnia who - many patients with insomnia will actually over report the lack of sleep that they are getting.”
“In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.”
Source: Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art
“In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.”
“In general, those who defend capitalism are basically out of touch with reality.”
“In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.”
“In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type arrives.”
“In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.”
Source: Remarks on the slavery question: in a letter to Jonathan Phillips, esq
“In general, we should be able to agree that those who have greater opportunities and face fewer impediments have a greater responsibility to do more to help achieve such ends.”
“In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.”
Source: Society Of Mind
“In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.”
“In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.”
Source: Modern Painters
“In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.”
Source: On Grief And Reason: Essays
“In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.”
“In general, workers under 35 highly value Millennials' ability to relate, be helpful, be open-minded, and be understanding. Employees over 35 appreciated their energy, enthusiasm, open-mindedness, fresh perspective, and understanding of new technologies. It is interesting, in my early research, Millennials entering the workforce reported advantages they claimed to have in the workplace. The advantages turn out to be strengths that are recognized in them as managers.”
“In general, working on a horror movie is no different than working on any movie. Turn the camera around and there's 20, 30 people standing around, eating doughnuts, smoking cigarettes between takes, working, like any other set.”
“In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.”
“In general, you don't want to move your kids when they're teenagers. They're not going to be happy with you.”
“In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look at people like Vincent van Gogh or Jean-Michel Basquiat-there's a long, long list of artists who have died in tragic circumstances, and far, far too early.”
“In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or an Edward Cullen or anything other than a full, complex human being. That said, while I've tried to reflect that in my books, I don't think I've always succeeded, because I am always running up against my own insufficiencies and biases etc.”
“In generale, più è profonda la comprensione di un dato soggetto, e più profonda è anche la delusione che ne segue: più si è intelligenti, meno si è sani di mente.”
Source: 1984