#specific

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. ↗

— George Santayana

#common #common denominator #denominator #exist #felt

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#communication #essentially #illusion #imagine #incidental

We sold 'Seinfeld' all over the world but it was a very specific kind of show. In some countries it went down really well, in others they hated it. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#down #hated #kind #others #over

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#aimed #also #award #bangladesh #basic

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements. ↗

— John Sexton

#consciously #elements #experience #forest #found

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#course #design #down #golf #golf course

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry. ↗

— Dinah Shore

#death #emmys #grown #how #i

I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to.I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial. ↗

— Dave Sim

#comfortable #controversial #having #i #i do

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#interaction #naturally #positive #relation #specific

Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being. ↗

— June Singer

#aspects #being #feminine #human #human being