(48 quotes found)
“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
William Blake
“Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them.”
Derrick Jensen
“We try to be extremely explicit about the data we are collecting and how we are storing it, and we let the customer know the benefits to them. We let them know that if they are willing to let us target ads to them, they will get more relevant content. If we are vigilant and explicit.”
Bradley Horowitz
“Davis-Bacon was designed explicitly to keep black construction workers from working on Depression-era public works projects.”
Cato Institute
“[Asked about a scene with Gong Li in] Eros, ... I don't think that was explicit. Do you think that was explicit? I don't think it was explicit at all.”
Chang Chen
“They probably will not explicitly (address it.) But there are several ways in which they can bring that up and talk about it in terms of global risk and the adjustment to international terms of trade, or...that inflation has been coming in lower than expected.”
Carolyn Kwan
“Our parent meeting is pretty explicit about how careful we are. Your son's health is No. 1. It's more important than any victory or any play or anything like that.”
Chris Svarczkopf
“From my perception, I don't think he's made explicit efforts to win favor in the African-American community. Making speeches and making his presence felt at African-American events isn't a bad strategy , but if he's going to win, it's got to go beyond that.”
Christopher Borick
“It's irritating, because I would like to make movies that were as unrelenting and as explicit in their metaphysical, sexual and violent imagery as the stories. But with the way censorship is at present, there's no way you can do that.”
Clive Barker
