Specify Quotes

(on what inspires him as an actor) I like to go to new places. To specify, it is to say that I like not knowing. I like knowing when I get there. I know when it starts coming around and it raises the hair or it doesn`t. I was trained in the theater. So it was instilled in me as a young performer to take chances and not to worry about all that, because failure is a part of growth. If you`re gonna fail, fail big and take chances. So I`ve done that, or I`ve tried to do that.

We can`t possibly fund them all. The best way to do that is by following a master plan. It`s important to specify which objectives we can do.

The petition included the total number of properties on the acreage, ... It did not specify that these two landowners would not be included in the annexation.

In our egalitarian democracy we have just about empowered a branch of the government, the FHA, to specify the size and shape of the typical American suburban master bedroom in which all Americans are thus created equal.

President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don`t have it. He didn`t specify how.

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn`t specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court; our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure.

Some manufacturers will specify performance and some will even (detail) vibration characteristics, but only in rare cases will they specify the electronic components that will be used to implement those specifications. They do the `paper job,` and rely on suppliers for nitty-gritty details.