Top 247 Specialized Quotes & Sayings

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

Motion capture has become very specialized but also still just a tool of filmmaking.

We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.

'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.

In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

Building cars is highly specialized, it's hard, and it's capital intensive.

The number of illegal firings tripled during the [Ronald] Reagan years. It was at that time that you started getting these companies that specialized in how to destroy unions.

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world

The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I specialized in.

I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.

I went to a record store, they said they specialized in hard-to-find records. Nothing was alphabetized!

Personally I think we're over-specialized. Why it's getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a specimen's left ear.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

Critics for established venues are vetted by editors; they usually demonstrate a certain objectivity; and they come with known backgrounds and specialized knowledge.

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er.

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.

The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.

Direct selling provides an opportunity open to absolutely everyone, regardless of background, specialized skills or capital worth.

As attorney general, I've launched a specialized unit to protect voting rights.

I think even in American schools, they must be studying in a specialized manner.

When I lost seven of my toes on Nanga Parbat and small parts of my fingertips I knew I'd never be a great rock climber. So I specialized in high-altitude climbing.

I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.

We have a highly specialized customer and want to give her the best experience somewhere she can trust.

I think the best thing I have is the introvert's ability to listen when you're working on something as complicated as this and you have to really be aware of everyone's specialized skills.

I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.

It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.

Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.

When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

We don't need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community.

It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management.

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.

In the fetus, or a really young child, all the different brain areas are connected to each other, diffusely. And as the brain develops, the excess connections are turned off, so you get very specialized areas. So most people have really specialized talents. What happens in creative people is this pooling doesn't take place.

When I started Sosa & Associates, there were only 3 million Latinos in the U.S. and only four Hispanic-specialized marketing agencies.I had one little goal for our small San Antonio-based agency: to be the largest Hispanic-specialized agency in the United States. We planned for our success and achieved our goal.

My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Startups are now creating specialized 3-D printers capable of producing everything from synthetic hamburgers to multi-story apartment buildings.

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

The VA should use every tool at their disposal to support and treat our veterans, including the specialized care offered by service dogs.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

I don't think that you can dispose of the constructive and inventive things that America is doing - and say, "Oh we aren't doing anything anymore and we are living off of what the poor Chinese do." It is more complicated than that. There is the example of Detroit which was once a very prosperous and diverse city. And look what happened when it just specialized on automobiles. Look at Manchester when it specialized in those dark satanic mills, when it specialized in textiles. It was supposed to be the city of the future.

The only specialized diet that I follow is home-cooked food.

The instant people specialize, its in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

Perhaps there is a minimum distance that should separate one exhibit from another... Indeed those specialized in psychophysics have actually come up with some rules.