Particularism Def Quotes & Sayings

You get a bad result one week and it's a natural reaction to go out in the next game and put it behind you and do well. — Rio Ferdinand

In life you have to avoid three geometric figures - vicious circles, love triangles and square minds — Mario Benedetti

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner. — Helena Christensen

When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect. — Peace Pilgrim

I got so strong I felt like a giant ... When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny compared to them. But I never believed they were bigger than me. So the mind is so fascinating. — Gary Player

Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose. The professional tends to classify and specialise, to accept uncritically the groundrules of the environment. The groundrules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware. The 'expert' is the man who stays put. — Marshall McLuhan

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it's our job to do it one better. — Stanley Kubrick

Susannah realized, with dawning bitterness, that she could now give the perfect definition of a ka-mai: one who has been given hope but no choices. Like giving a motorcycle to a blindman, she thought. Richard — Stephen King

I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead. — Tommy Chong

There's this sloth in the jungle walking from one tree to another, and it's mugged by a gang of snails, and when the police ask the sloth if it could identify any of its attackers, it says, 'I don't know; it all happened so quickly... — Iain Banks