Specifics Quotes

“Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“You have to be very specific when it comes to magic,” A-Through-L said sheepishly. “You must say things as carefully as you can. Magic is like a machine that only does exactly what you tell it to do. So you have to speak to it in a way it can understand. And magic only understands you if you spell it out slowly. And use small words. You didn’t tell the card which Prince or how quickly you wanted to go. For all we know this is the shortest path—or it thought you meant our fragrant friend here! Or perhaps the Alleyman is some sort of Prince, too. The word Prince is very open-ended. You can’t really trust anything that far down in the alphabet.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

“I like gross generalizations...I also like disgusting specifics!”
― Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single

“Properly told, stories are able to operate on two levels. On the surface, they deal with particulars involving a range of facts related to a given time and place, a local culture and a social group--and it is these specifics that tend to bore us whenever they lie outside of our own experience. But then, a layer beneath the particulars, the universals are hidden: the psychological, social and political themes that transcend the stories' temporal and geographical settings and are founded on unvarying fundamentals of human nature.”
― Alain de Botton, The News: A User's Manual

“When setting intentions, focus on the specifics of what you really want, not necessarily how it plays out.”
― Russell Eric Dobda

“God has planned everything for a specific time”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Perhaps we could all just not use groups to identify ourselves and instead we use specialized titles of individual significance, I wish we had something like that, oh what about names?”
― C.A.A. Savastano