“People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is a structuring of the elements in your life in a particular way.” PeopleWayInspirationalDifferentSelfSuccessCareersParticularBuddhismTypeInvolvedElementsDiscoverySelf DiscoveryRenunciation Author:Frederick Lenz
“I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.” KnowsStyleMovementParticularTypeInvolvedConsequenceNotesGenreChordsDemographicsHigh Prices Author:Concha Buika
“I think that there's a particular type of person who goes into children's theater, and then goes into theater in high school. There was something about the guys I knew in theater, we were all very vulnerable. You could tell that at some point we were made fun of.” ThinkingChildrenPersonsMadeSchoolGuyFunParticularTypeHigh SchoolTheaterVulnerable Author:Craig Brewer
“It's interesting when you're doing signing sessions with other writers and you look at the queues at each table and you can see definite human types gathering there.... My queue is always full of, you know, wild-eyed sleazebags and people who stare at me very intensely, as if I have some particular message for them. As if I must know that they've been reading me, that this dyad or symbiosis of reader and writer has been so intense that I must somehow know about it.” PeopleIfsKnowsHumansLooksHas BeensReadingInterestingParticularTypeReaderMessagesTablesIntenseStaringDefiniteGatheringSessionSigningQueuesSymbiosis Author:Martin Amis
“Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.” FocusParticularTypeLawyerSoftwareLicenseLicenses Author:Keith Rothfus
“the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.” MenSeemsGirlCareersFashionParticularTypePagesMagazinesDamageCharmPsychicsEditorialsPlayboy Author:Alison Lurie
“Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work.” SometimesFunProcessTermQualityParticularTypePersonalityAmountDirectorsOur FamilyComposerQuality Of Life Author:Christophe Beck
“Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a communal setting, and with traditional two-parent families. What children require is loving and attentive adults, not a particular family type.” ChildrenTwoFormParentParticularTypeAdultsSettingTraditionalSettingsVarietyThriveMultipleUnmarriedSingle ParentCaretakers Author:Sandra Scarr
“The original Upper Paleolithic people would, if they appeared among us today, be called Caucasoid, in the sense that they lacked the particular traits we associate with Negroid and Mongoloid types.” PeopleIfsTodayParticularTypeOriginalsTraitsAssociates Book:Personality and learning theory: the structure of personality in its environment Source: Personality and learning theory: the structure of personality in its environment
“A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.” ConditionsParticularTypeDefinitionsCommandVerification Author:Robert W. Floyd
“My norm for watching scary movies, what I love about it, is when they work and they scare me, which is not that often I'm afraid. The more you know the genre, your taste becomes a little more rarefied and you take a very particular route to the type of movies you like in the genre. But I still get scared.” KnowsLittlesStillsParticularTypeTasteScaredScaryGenreScareRoutesNorm Author:Katie Holmes
“Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly but that would lose the average layman.” WorldSometimesUseLosesParticularListeningTypeAverageTendenciesJargonLayman Author:Pharrell Williams
“Most pastors railing against gay marriage have never cried out on racism, any type of injustice or police brutality. They've never once made a statement about health care. Many of them are silent on community issues. They are very silent, but they have become the leaders of this particular movement.” MadeCareCommunityLeaderIssuesMovementParticularTypeGayRacismPoliceSilentInjusticeStatementsHealth CareCriedPastorGay MarriagePolice BrutalityBrutalityAgainst Gay Marriage Author:Otis Moss III
“I love the discipline. I love the schedule of pushing your body to an extreme and getting it to a particular type of physical shape. Learning a new self defense or some kind of martial art that I didn't know before and the loving of that is also hating that at the same time.” KnowsKindArtSelfBodyHateParticularTypeDisciplineShapesExtremesDefenseYour BodyPushingMartial ArtsSchedulesSelf DefenseNew Self Author:Jessica Biel
“The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.” PeopleKindMatterEnoughSocialIssuesGraceParticularTypeInstitutionsDevelopingGood EnoughExpandingSociabilitySocial Institutions Author:Paul Goodman
“Honestly, I think it's dumb luck that I'm able to kind of get away doing different types of films in different genres. There's always a tendency to kind of stick with what works, or stick with one particular kind of brand or movie. But so far I've been getting away with it, so I'm going to continue to do that for as long as I can.” ThinkingKindLongI CanDifferentAbleFilmParticularTypeLuckSticksHonestlyTendenciesBrandsDumbGenreGet AwayDifferent GenresDumb Luck Author:Ryan Reynolds
“As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological type. She represents something bigger than herself. That was the genius of Flaubert: the ability to combine the general and the particular.” SaidCharacterAbilityParticularTypeGeniusBiggerGenderEmmaSociologicalBaudelaireAndrogynous Author:Sophie Barthes
“Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.” YearsPersonsCountryAmericaBoysParticularTypeIntelligentCanadaAustraliaOld WomanNicholson Author:Douglas Adams
“What is needed is the development in men of that particular type of skill which will enable them to make social use of knowledge already in their possession; enable them to apply simple, sometimes self-evident, truths to the guidance of their common life.” MenSelfSometimesUseSocialSimpleCommonParticularTypeDevelopmentNeededSkillsPossessionGuidanceEvidentCommon LifeUse Of Knowledge Book:Let the People Know Source: Let the People Know
“Once a price move exceeds its median historical age, any method you use to analyze the market, whether it be fundamental or technical, is likely to be far more accurate. For example, if a chartist interprets a particular pattern as a top formation, but the market is only up 10% from the last low, the odds are high that the projection will be incorrect. However, if the market is up 25% to 30%, then the same type of formation should be given a great deal more weight.” IfsShouldUseAgeLastsMovingGivenDealsExampleParticularTypeLowsWeightMethodFundamentalsHistoricalPatternsAccurateOddsProjectionExceedFormationMedian Author:Victor Sperandeo
“I think our particular sound has come by just not adhering to any specific sound. For us, it's about the song, and being able to fit in to what is appropriate. When we sit down, we're not talking about what type of band we're gonna be within a specific genre - there's a uniqueness to all of us individually that throws putting anything in a box out the window.” ThinkingAbleSongSoundTalkingParticularTypeFitBandWindowBoxesGenreAppropriateUniquenessNot Talking Author:Nate Ruess
“Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.” PoliticalDecisionParticularTypeSpeechConsequenceConsiderationCollectivesDecision MakingDeliberation Author:F. David Mathews
“Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.” MadeTermInspiringKnowingParticularTypeCreatingDressesSuicideActiveVirginsVirgin Suicides Author:Marc Jacobs
“How do you view God in a desert? There's two types of birds. There's vultures, and there's hummingbirds. One lives off dead carcasses, rotting meat. The other lives off the beautiful, sweet, nectar in a particular flower, on a particular desert plant, in the same desert. They both find what they're looking for. Do you know - take it all the way back into the Old Testament - and the Muslim and you, we actually serve the same God. Allah, to a Muslim; to us, Abba Father, God.” KnowsWayTwoBeautifulFatherViewsParticularSweetFlowerTypeBirdPlantDesertMeatDo You KnowTestamentOld TestamentRottingVultureNectarAbbaHummingbirdsAbba Father Author:Brian Houston
“In most homes, from what I know of them, even though the woman's place in that particular home might be in the home, still, she is queen of her house. So I like exploring the many different incarnations of women in that country, actually. You find quite a range of these women in this book - each one of them embodies a completely different personality type. And how can you write a book that's only full of men, anyway? I mean, half the population of this world is women.” KnowsMenWorldWritingMeanStillsBookDifferentCountryHomeMightHouseHalfThis WorldParticularTypePersonalityPopulationRangeQueensExploringIncarnationPersonality Types Author:Anita Rau Badami
“I know the world doesn't need maybe another of [a particular type of song] - the same thing again - but you can't help yourself. And some people like it, but you kind of know in your heart that it's a lesser version of what you've done before. But maybe it has a good tempo, or it feels fresh, but it's still not.” PeopleKnowsWorldNeedsFeelsHeartKindStillsDoneHelpingSongParticularTypeVersionsTempoHelp Yourself Author:Stephen Malkmus
“There isn't a grand plan at work in the progression of the books with respect to the line. I do want the books to be different from each other, certainly, but I'm more aware of that on the level of theme or structure. I can tell when I'm writing the last of a particular type of poem because the writing is too easy and I start to feel queasy.” WantFeelsWritingI CanBookDifferentLastsEasyLinesLevelsPlansParticularTypeStructureThemeProgression Author:Matthea Harvey