Top 1200 Explaining Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

I was always annoyed by too much explaining.

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

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

Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, says that to a certain extent, the worse the crisis, the closer to home you should deal with it. .. You ought to be dealing with the crisis, not explaining things to somebody else.

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

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

Russia has never been very good at explaining itself to foreigners.

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

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

Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. ( Recherches de la vérité , Livre VI, seconde partie, chap. 3.) And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.

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

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.

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

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

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

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

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

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

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

The key to good worldbuilding is leaving out most of what you create. You, as the author, had damn well better know the where all that dragon food comes from, but that doesn't mean that I, as a reader, want to read a five thousand word essay about you explaining it to me. I don't need to see the math, but I can tell by the details you provide whether or not you've thought these things through to their logical conclusions.

I want my music to do the explaining.

Words are an imperfect medium for explaining.

If you're explaining, you're losing.

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

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

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

Having parents who are chicken sexers - I had trouble explaining that to kids at school!

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

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

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

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

I am only describing language, not explaining anything.

I'm not really good with explaining myself verbally, but I do it through music and other outlets.

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

Barack Obama was speaking to a Jewish group, and he told them that his name Barack is the same as the Jewish word 'baruch,' which means one who's blessed. That's what he said, yeah. Obama had a harder time explaining his middle name, Hussein. Things got quiet there.

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

We should not lay all past mistakes on Chairman Mao. So we must be very objective in assessing him. His contributions were primary, his mistakes secondary. In China, we will inherit the many good things in Chairman Mao's thinking while at the same time explaining clearly the mistakes he made.

Clearly communicate your project: Imagine explaining it to someone not familiar with tech.

It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he was younger. He was describing technology that didn't exist. He had MIT engineers, and he was trying to tell them what he wanted; but there were no terms for what he wanted yet. I think a lot of his early frustration was trying to quickly get his vision to the finish line.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

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

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

I myself do not believe in explaining anything.

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

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.

With mockumentaries, the conceit is that the characters are being interviewed, so you can start a scene and cut to a character looking at the camera and saying, "I'm working on this project," instead of having to figure out ways for people to talk naturally about what they're doing. You see this problem in pilots - people end up explaining things to each other that they'd never explain in real life.

Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome.

The debate raged on for so long, at last Saphira had interrupted with a roar that shook the walls of the command tent. Then she said, I am sore and tired, and Eragon is doing a poor job of explaining himself. We have better things to do than stand around yammering like jackdaws, no? ... Good now listen to me. It was reflected Eragon, hard to argue with a dragon.

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

God is more interested in declaring than explaining.

... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!

If you are explaining, you are losing.

People have to find ways of explaining the work.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!

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