Top 25 Specificity Quotes

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences – by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you’ll touch people.

Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

I don’t want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don’t want to intrude on anybody’s life, which is why there’s very little specificity or names in the songs I write.

The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.

Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.

I think most Americans, when we’re building a character, we look at the specificity of what that person is, in particular.

I do feel like anything benefits from character logic. That can be from the dumbest ad to the greatest Shakespearean drama to the silliest ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketch. There is a certain specificity in detail, which you can get when you’re paying attention to stuff like that.

We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can’t be limited by that. You can’t let somebody tell you, ‘Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.’

I try not to shy away from specificity.

Parenting advice is mostly useless because every family is uniquely its own; artistic advice is mostly useless because every artist works in their own way. Thus, figuring out how to balance the two has an intense specificity.

I like comedy that’s very specific and isn’t afraid to lose people through its specificity.

I can’t do fiction unless I visualize what’s going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.

Most uses of bioassay involving smooth muscle demand high sensitivity and specificity.

There’s a specificity of language that’s required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with – a specificity of language that is somehow not as clear in a lot of American schools.

I’m not as worried about the process of writing, simply because I think I’ve got that one down, you know? I think I know what brings specificity to these ideas, what brings specificity to the genre elements, or anything else, and it’s personal emotions.

I think people wanted to see some specificity in faith on TV.

We never pull down the quality of the product, and I think that pays in the long term. People come up to me and say, ‘I’m still wearing a Missoni sweater from 30 years ago, and it still looks great.’ So quality, specificity and passion.

The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich your imagination. And specificity in description is something every writer should strive for.

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

France has a specificity – the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators, and all of the players are French. They had a habit of, let’s say, getting along with each other, and the prices traditionally were very high.

In some ways, I value specificity. I think that there’s power in, once you know who your fan base is, being able to speak to them. I hope to cultivate a fan base of black girls and black people and people of color, women of color, queer people, people who are are marginalized in general.

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it’s specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It’s just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We’ve seen that.

As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.