I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else’s experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.
My music has been called heavy metal, but that’s not an accurate description. I’d rather call it articulate rock because it expresses many feelings and emotions.
Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.
Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don’t know if it’s because older women are more confident, or just that we don’t care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.
There’s an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?
I can’t please everyone. That’s not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan’s defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.
There is not one description of beauty – that in fact it has different faces, different stories, and different background, and it’s important to embrace all of those.
I am just postmodern enough not to trust ‘postmodern’ as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.
Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That’s but a hint of what we’ll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally – and permanently – be ‘at home’ in a way that defies description.
My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.
I had a spell no more striking than other people of my job description. I did all the things you weren’t supposed to do. I had a motto: When in doubt, try it. I went out and committed experience.
On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.
From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you – some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it’s accurate.
People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don’t want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but vital only insofar as such detail is in the service of a richly imagined story, rather than in the service of good botany or good philosophy or good geography.
My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, ‘intellectuals gone bad,’ a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate.
‘Lucky Us’ ends with a description of a photograph of the novel’s fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.
Isn’t one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it’s basically impossible to use text to show that.
Don’t be limited by your job description.
One thing an exceptional employee never says is, ‘That’s not in my job description.’ Exceptional employees work outside the boundaries of job descriptions.
A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.
I don’t put a lot of description in the books because I write books the way I like to read them, and that is I like to build images and be a creative reader, and so I write that way.
There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn’t bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it’s hard to see, it’s important to understand that these people exist.
Engineering producers who don’t play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there’s a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.
I haven’t touched a piece of meat since I read a graphic description of Chicago’s slaughterhouses when I was 12.
I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I’m British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I’m probably emotionally stunted.
Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.
My strength, by default, is my size over corners and my hands, which I know is in the job description, but that really matters.
I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn’t see that as a requirement in my job description.
There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting ‘nose-to-nose’ was part of my job description.
This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company – otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.
There’s no way that anyone can know the ebb and flow of one’s career. You can’t know that. You can tell young actors it’s going to be very difficult, but there’s no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it.
It would be really cool to have some more roles where it doesn’t matter how a character looks. You get a script, you see it, and it doesn’t matter: there’s no description of how the character looks in any way shape or form; it’s just, whoever is right for the role is the person.
Our public description, a visual bookmarking tool, tends to resonate with people. That’s why we use it. When we talk to the tech press we tend to describe it as a company solving a discovery problem.
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.
And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It’s service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.
Anyone who has to have the word ‘charming’ in their name probably isn’t – just take a look at any dating site where men use ‘prince charming’ in their description.
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
The total number of people that do a job that has the same description as mine in the entire world is fewer than 10. There’s a lot of effort looking for life in space – that’s a lot of what NASA does, but they’re not necessarily looking for the kind of life that can hold up its side of a conversation.
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.
The teacher of history’s work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it.
Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
I’m quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern – mankind.
The plot of ‘Stranger Things’ is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.
