#specific

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#blueprints #commercial #essentially #every #evoking

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#anything #began #bit #get #hit

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#confer #convinced #exist #greatest #honors

Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#benefit #boost #designed #earners #enormous

I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#anymore #back #been #couple #go

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#across #america #been #between #each

I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#adore #air #cities #element #gives

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#asked #certainly #concept #different #different things

The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts. ↗

— Suze Orman

#financial #foundation #fresh #fresh start #money

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#call #difficult #establish #irrational #know