Hyperspecialize Quotes & Sayings

In a world grown dark with deceit there there are many who are blinded and few who can hold up a light so that we can see the way. More important, so that we can look at ourselves, as well as others, and know how similar we are to the herd. — F. Sionil Jose

I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont.
Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything.
She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again. — Cormac McCarthy

Yes I am sure I am Super Woman now add more Spanx to the spandex in my suit please ;) — Kim Cormack

Aphrodisiacs come in many forms: food, drink, the internet ... — Craig Ferguson

Academic training actively deprives you of the qualities that make for good teaching. A good teacher speaks plainly, in vivid, accessible language, because she is addressing what amounts to a general audience. But the kind of jargon academics learn to use is designed to repel the uninitiated. A good teacher ranges widely, making connections among subjects as well as from learning to life. But academics are constrained to specialize, and increasingly, to hyperspecialize, looking neither left nor right as they plow their little corner of the field. — William Deresiewicz

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries. — Norman Jewison

People are called 'stars' not only because they shine ... because the qualities they exemplify are ... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have. — Alice Walker

It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies. — Mary Abigail Dodge

Just as a novelist may sometimes wonder why he invents characters who do not exist and makes them do things which do not matter, so a philosopher may wonder why he invents cases that cannot occur in order to determine what must be the case. — Edward St. Aubyn