Description Quotes

• The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

  Nancy Reagan

  Jobs, Husband, President

  "The 'just say no' first lady". Interview with Katie Couric, www.today.com. February 18, 2004.

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• A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Jobs, Treasure, Workers

  "The Business Case for Workplace Flexibility: How Employers and Employees Can 'Have it All'" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Giving, Culture

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.349, University of Chicago Press

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• When I used to model, the job description is 'shut up and pose.' There are people today who would really like me to go back to that old job description and 'just shut up and pose.

  Kathy Ireland

  Jobs, Old Job, People

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• Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.

  Anna Quindlen

  Jobs, Media, Diagnosis

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• I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.

  Vera Farmiga

  Jobs, Character, Independent

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. March 30, 2011.

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• The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Roles, Firsts

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• Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.

  Mayim Bialik

  Jobs, Children, Mammals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The description is not the described.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Semantics

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Allan W. Anderson (1991). “A Wholly Different Way of Living”, p.146, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• 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.

  Jeff Daniels

  Jobs, Ideas, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

  Dan B. Allender

  Life, God, Reading

  Dan B. Allender (2009). “To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future”, p.5, WaterBrook

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• 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.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Successful, Tests, Accepted

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• Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

  Kary Mullis

  Kings, War, Gone

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• If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

  Winona Ryder

  Girl, Character, Ugly

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• I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

  John McGahern

  Printed Word, Church, Gothic

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Names, India, Stories

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• The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

  Karl Pearson

  Math, May, Results

  Karl Pearson (1900). “The grammar of science”, p.505, Рипол Классик

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• War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

  John McCain

  Peace, War, Reality

  John McCain's Speech to the American Red Cross "Promise of Humanity" Conference, www.mccain.senate.gov. May 6, 1999.

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• The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

  Louis E. Boone

  Life, Sad, Fear

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• Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Bird, Lightning, Landscape

  Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Donald A. Norman

  Writing, Exercise, Ties

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• By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Jobs, School, Creating

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• Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.

  Roy Blunt

  Stupid, Army, Ebay

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• All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

  Christopher Darden

  Honest, Hell, Killing

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