Top 299 Coherent Quotes & Sayings

Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.

If people are going to watch TV, let's give them something coherent with actual dialogue.

Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

Complicated Grief was written in larger and more coherent (if disparate) shapes. The question was how they fit together. The mind is coherent, trust that was the best writing advice I ever got (I got it from Carole Maso and I pass it on). It's true, and clearer and clearer as one grows and gains an improved sense of who one actually is (as versus who one was supposed to be).

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

I don't see a coherent global order anywhere on the horizon.

The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?

[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.

All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.

I write songs; I record them. When I get enough, and it seems like a coherent piece, I call it an album.

When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was really coherent attracted me.

Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story.

There's no coherent stylistic genre specific advice that I could provide.

By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.

They should set a very clear priority for the government. There is such a large penumbra of issues. The party needs to come to grips with the reality that it has to be coherent politically.

I am coherent; I don't change my mind in a few days.

For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public knows of these things only in fragments, but not as a coherent and practical agenda indeed the only practical course available. That is our fault and we should start now to put a positive agenda before the public that includes the human and economic advantages of better technology, integrated planning, coherent purposes, and foresight.

The opposite of coherent is interesting.

There is no morally coherent difference between fur and other animal clothing, such as leather, wool, etc., just as there is no morally coherent distinction between meat and milk or eggs.

Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain open.

I have this terrible habit of wanting to try to be consistent and develop a philosophy that's coherent.

Building a stable, peaceful, and coherent Europe must include Russia.

If he'd looked like a cross between Mr. Clooney and, say, one of the hobbits, I probably would have been far more capable of coherent thought.

I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around.

The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down.

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures.

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

I am not a pacifist and I would back a lawful, coherent and compelling case for the use of military force by the U.K. against Isis.

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry - a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely - to push in a coherent direction.

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

People are, by and large, quite poor at judging correct absolute values but are astute about determining relative values. Psychologists call this coherent arbitrariness, which suggests that individuals are coherent when they compare prices on a relative basis but arbitrary when those prices are considered versus fundamental value.

A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.

What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more coherent-fabulously more coherent-when you start with an assumption that Quality is the primary empirical reality of the world. . . . . . . but showing that, of course, was a very big job. . . .

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!

No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.

A coherent typeface is an essential part of a coherent branding strategy.

Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.

Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.

Drama and comedy, to me, are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

Marijuana at the time we were making movies [with Cheech Marine] was not that readily available and I do prefer to be coherent when I am working.