To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.
I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely.
The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality
It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.
Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties.
Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.
I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.
The likelihood is that you or someone you know closely will suffer from a mental health condition in your lifetime.
The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.
I follow K-1 closely and also train Ray Sefo. My heart is with K-1 and I love the sport of standup kickboxing.
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another
Working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed.
Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.
The producers came across some of my photographs. They thought that I resembled Ambedkar closely. So they invited me.
I usually read a script from an audience perspective first, and then look more closely at the character only.
Sometimes people forget just how closely MWR and JGR work together.
You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.
I love the whole Punjabi culture as I have seen it very closely in Delhi in my growing up years.
We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.
I do not follow closely anymore, since there is a limit to how much heartsickness one can bear.
Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.
It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.
It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.
I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me.
Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes].
I was a big supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I worked very closely with President Obama on that.
Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon.
In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.
We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.
I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.
I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.
There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.
Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.
I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.
Over the years, she'd learned not to question him to closely—mostly because he wouldn't answer her.
If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.
My journey was not hard because I have seen stardom and the downfall very closely in my career.
We should cooperate much more closely in fighting terrorism, which is a great challenge.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to their queries.
Discipline tops my list of most-hated things, followed closely by portobello mushrooms.
You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, especially if they're family.
In this rapidly changing media environment, business transformations need to be closely linked to communications strategies.
Pregnancies spaced too closely together lead to increased rates of infant mortality.
He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.
Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.
U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy.
That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.
Turkey is not an enemy of Israel. I have worked closely with the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.
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