Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.
Unhappy memories are persistent. They're specific, and it's the details that refuse to leave us alone. Though a happy memory may stay with you just as long as one that makes you miserable, what you remember softens over time. What you recall is simply that you were happy, not necessarily the individual moments that brought about your joy. But the memory of something painful does just the opposite. It retains its original shape, all bony fingers and pointy elbows. Every time it returns, you get a quick poke in the eye or jab in the stomach. The memory of being unhappy has the power to hurt us long after the fact. We feel the injury anew each and every time we think of it.
I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.
When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.