In psychology and behavioral economics, people have shown that if you just describe options in a certain way, or make some features of a situation salient, you can get people to do and even see what you want. You don’t have to be a Jedi to manipulate people’s attention.
In the mind of the public, the word ‘planet’ carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies… many members of the public assume that alleged ‘non-planets’ cease to be interesting enough to warrant scientific exploration.
I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don’t often see that portrayed narratively.
If someone was like, ‘Describe yourself in one word,’ I would never say, ‘Handsome.’
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
While all old people have been young, no young people have been old, and this troubling fact engenders the frustration of all parents and elders, which is that while you can describe your experience, you cannot confer it.
One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider’s whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.
For me, being a top coach means more than just teaching football. That includes empathy, it means that you can speak to a group, that you can deal with the media – you have to be able to do all of that. I would not describe myself as blind in this regard, but a top coach also includes titles.
The words used to describe the heroes of D-Day are not the current lexicon we tend to use for success. Humble, selfless, brave. Those are not words we attach in 2019 to superstars.
What I’ve found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don’t really hold here exactly.
I’d describe ‘Psych’ as ‘Real Genius’ meets ‘Django Unchained.’
That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn’t make much sense in the post-colonial world.
There are many terms that have been used to describe me: man, comedian, disappointment, hammock enthusiast.
I guess standup is really painting pictures with words – especially for me, as I describe quite fantastical, visual things. My art teacher, Dexter Dalwood, always seemed to think they were linked. We bonded over our love of Vic Reeves.
Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.
I have a lot of vintage, so my style is pretty eclectic of different time periods and styles. I would describe it as comfortable, creative, and vintage.
Words like ‘bossy,’ ‘shrill,’ and ‘moody’ are used to describe women who speak up at work and give voice to their passion – but I believe this negative commentary is meant to keep critical thinkers quiet.
People might say I’m difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as ‘difficult’? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.
I describe a soulmate as a ‘soul-nurturing mate’ – someone who nurtures your soul – thereby promoting insight and growth.
It would be impossible in a few words to describe all that we’ve found with Cassini. No mission has ever gone as deep for as long on a planetary system as rich as Saturn’s.
I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God. I call this God by different words. I describe God as the source of life and the source of love and the ground of being.
I was reading some books by Michel Houellebecq, and the first thing that comes to mind is that they’re really funny, all the ways they describe the most depressing things.
Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices – which enter into total inflation – and movements in the prices of other goods and services – that is, core inflation.
It has been magical. I can’t think of a better word to describe my journey than magical.
Everything I ever did in my life when I was younger revolved around wanting to play for Wales, and then you get that cap… it’s hard to describe.
We always describe a piece as ‘really lively’ where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical.
Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something – with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.
The best way to describe ‘Tough Enough’ is to just call it an opportunity. In my opinion, it’s best opportunity any aspiring wrestler could possibly have.
When we learned about Salem at school, the whole thing was confusing. Because the idea of the witch hunt is used as a symbol to describe people searching for something that’s basically untrue, it cemented in my mind as a kid that witches weren’t real.
Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.
With most of my books, I’ll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.
I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.
I would rise, monk-like, at 6 A.M., speak to no one, make tea, and go immediately to my desk from which I didn’t move until frills appeared around the edges of my eyes or I heard the sound of a wine bottle being uncorked. It would give the wrong impression to describe these as Writing Days.
Being married, I don’t know how to describe it. It’s very comfortable when you find the right person. It all comes together beautifully.
Minimal is the word I’d use to describe how I live and dress, and it’s also how I sing. I’m not a big fan of overemoting.
A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It’s unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing.
To describe Peter Thiel as simply a libertarian wildly understates the case. His belief system is based on unapologetic selfishness and economic Darwinism.
All clothes are worn on the street, but ‘streetwear’ had once described T-shirt brands and skate-inspired brands, and now it’s just a lazy innuendo used to describe clothing made by designers that the establishment deems ‘less than.’
I describe my career path as a zigzag, not a ladder.
In economics, ‘competitiveness’ does not describe Barack Obama’s insistence on not only being president of the U.S. but also beating his staff at bowling.
I always and strictly tell Nintendo employees never to use the term ‘success’ to describe our own performance.
My style, I’d definitely describe as athleisure with a twist of gay, which I really, really live for.
I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society – older women.
I don’t know if there are words to describe my motivation.
In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in ‘Amped,’ I focus on neural implants.
I’d like to think that most of what I do is self-evident if you’re listening to it or seeing it. But I don’t mind the fact that it’s hard to describe.
I just describe music as my point of view with a little edge to it.
The one thing that Airbnb had was, Brian and Joe were designers, and they did a great job. They also had Nate Blecharczyk, who was the CTO, who I describe his history as a high schooler and at Harvard as really a creator of tools for spammers.
Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It’s the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
As a new Googler, Porat spent some time learning the words that describe the Googley people who work in those buildings.
And so I’m saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.
Luxury is a difficult object to describe – it’s been the object of hundreds of years of discussion. We definitely don’t need it, but it’s good for the soul.
My books are not ‘political.’ I don’t make political demands. They actually describe life. But when we look at human life, politics creeps in everywhere.
On Hillary’s side, I don’t think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be ‘beholden.’ Nothing’s gonna really change. Government’s gonna have the answer to everything, and that’s gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.
