Specific knowledge is needed in every work, if we want to have success

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

The more specific you are about a very general feeling of loneliness is actually how you connect with people.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

I make goals that are motivational, that are specific, that are realistic.

I think when people have the freedom to tell their own story rather than trying to be specific to a certain design or style, there's more freedom, and it ends up feeling more like home. Those spaces we see in magazines and on the Internet are beautiful, but if there's not that story there, then it's going to lack that feeling of home.

God operates the world by covenants. Those covenants have specific jurisdictions and responsibilities, not to be infringed upon by another covenant.

Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is the process of establishing the character of Christ in the person. That's all it is.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

A lot of the people who are hacking on behalf of governments are doing so on a contract basis. And they also do other things. They will hack on behalf of spammers, and will just be hired for a specific job.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.

I like kind of picking out specific players and watching what they do, whether it's in pregame skate or warmups or in the game.

I have a mole in my eye, which is a very specific thing.