Top 569 Explaining Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.

In politics, when you`re explaining, you`re losing.

A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation.

People have to find ways of explaining the work.

If you're explaining, you're losing.

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

I think of my job on television as explaining things.

And then you've got President Clinton who made the case as only he can. After he spoke, somebody sent out a tweet- they said, you should appoint him secretary of explaining stuff. I like that- secretary of explaining stuff. Although, I have to admit, it didn't really say stuff. I cleaned that up a little bit.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

I keep explaining this to people: I can do more than one thing.

I would like the Labour Party to issue a pamphlet to all its members explaining what antisemitism is. The pamphlet could go through each way that antisemitism manifests itself, point by point, explaining what each means.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.

I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.

God is more interested in declaring than explaining.

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Explaining belief has alwayas been difficult. How do you explain a love and a logic at the heart of the universe when the world is so out of whack? Explaining faith is impossible - vision over visibility - instinct over intellect - a songwriter plays a chore with the faith that he will hear the next one in his head.

Here we have perhaps in Mike Pence someone uniquely capable of explaining [Donald] Trump and being Trump and explaining for people who Trump is and what he is. And defending against whatever predictable insults and assaults on Trump that [Tim] Kaine comes up with.

I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?

I am only describing language, not explaining anything.

Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits.... Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence ... is a task for the future.

Talent is important, and some background as well. This really is not beginner's school. I want to work with people that have achieved a certain level and with whom i can easily communicate, which means you don't have to do too much explaining so you won't waste precious time. I don't do much explaining during rehersals and we are just adjusting minor details. Simply, there is no space nor time for one to learn and each of them has to do their homework on time. That means practising, transitioning from a level to level.

No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market.

If you are explaining, you are losing.

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.

If you have a dream , don't waste your energies explaining why.

Words are an imperfect medium for explaining.

With novels, you're representing things. You're not explaining.

We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.

But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.

I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

A good traditional conceptual instruction is what I got from my better professors at MIT. They would be at a chalkboard, and they would literally be explaining something and working through a problem, but it wasn't rote. They were explaining the underlying theory and processes and intuition behind it.

Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.

Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently from an animal which knows that p - talk of knowledge is necessary once one begins to look at explaining the cognitive capacities of a species.

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!

Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.

Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a village.... I have come not to mind if certain people live in villages and some of my friends still appear to live in villages and a village can be cozy as well as intuitive but must one really keep perpetually explaining and elucidating?

Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.

I was always annoyed by too much explaining.

I myself do not believe in explaining anything.

For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

Men love explaining things. But when he's explaining something and you already know that, it might be tempting to say 'I already know that.' Instead, have him explain it to you over and over again. It will make him feel useful and will give you some time to think about out how to avoid him in the future.

When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with.

I want my music to do the explaining.

If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.