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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

  John Locke

  Men, Littles, Information

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• What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Chinese, Torture

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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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• 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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• You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Travel, Experience

  William Hazlitt (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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• Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

  William Gibson

  Dream, Jobs, Work

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• I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Funny, Wall, Flower

  Speech given at the White Shrine Club, Fresno, California. "The Event Makers I've Known". Book by Elvin C. Bell, p. 161, 2012.

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• America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

  Ralph Ellison

  Fate, America, Woven

  Invisible Man epilogue (1952)

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• The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, Nature, Travel

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.218

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• I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything have one primary concern - mankind.

  Chico Hamilton

  Artist, Medicine, Sculpture

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