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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. -- Bruce Barton
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. -- Red Auerbach
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. -- Charles Darwin
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. -- Thomas Aquinas
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. -- Anais Nin
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. -- Simone de Beauvoir
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. -- George Eliot
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. -- Galileo Galilei
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. -- C. S. Lewis
People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation. -- Nancy Kerrigan
Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished. -- Gautama Buddha
Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable. -- Wendell Berry
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation -- Isaac Newton
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer. -- Rumi
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. -- Eugene Ionesco
Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding -- Mark Z. Danielewski
Prediction and explanation are exactly symmetrical. Explanations are, in effect, predictions about what has happened; predictions are explanations about what's going to happen. -- John Rogers Searle
Good luck needs no explanation. -- Shirley Temple
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation. -- Will Rogers
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. -- C. S. Lewis
The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms. -- Angelus Silesius
Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology. -- Steven Pinker
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. -- Stephen Hawking
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. -- Elbert Hubbard
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. -- David Deutsch
The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena. -- Stockwell Day
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. -- Tony Campolo
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. -- Katherine Mansfield
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock. -- Anaxagoras
Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence. -- Charles Krauthammer
In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid. -- Dave Barry
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form. -- Carrie Fisher
Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want. -- Sabrina Bryan
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality -- Harold Geneen
There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities. -- Steven Pinker
I hate when there's a deleted scene on a DVD with no explanation, or you have to go out of your way to find an alternate audio track. -- Peyton Reed
We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. -- Anthony Hopkins
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. -- D. H. Lawrence
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation. -- Charles Babbage
When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything. -- Samuel Witwer
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. -- Richard Dawkins
Young people, those who think they're experts in science, there's no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation - and whatever man is doing has caused the jet stream to slow down, and that is permitting the polar vortex. -- Rush Limbaugh
Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing. -- Taylor Swift
For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books. -- Maya Angelou
Out of all the ridiculous religion stories - which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous - the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah, there's this big, giant universe, and it's expanding, and it's all going to collapse on itself, and we're all just here, just 'cuz. Just 'cuz.' That to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever. -- Trey Parker
If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation. -- Baz Luhrmann
The American vice is explanation. -- Gore Vidal
Science is prediction, not explanation. -- Fred Hoyle
Medication without explanation is obscene. -- Toni Cade Bambara
He who believes needs no explanation. -- Euripides
Who then will explain the explanation? -- Lord Byron
God means movement, and not explanation. -- Elie Wiesel
There isnt always an explanation for everything. -- Ernest Hemingway
Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation. -- Mason Cooley
Every explanation is after all an hypothesis. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
God is the explanation of all things. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
An alternate explanation is not a refutation. -- Greg Koukl
The patient needs an experience, not an explanation. -- Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what! -- Maxfield Parrish
Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation. -- Leonard Nimoy
Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment. -- Moses Finley
Things from the heart don't have an explanation. -- Pope Francis
London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. -- Ernest Hemingway
The simplest explanation is always the most likely. -- Agatha Christie
The ride does not require an explanation, just participants. -- Sonny Barger
There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience. -- Jad Abumrad
The simplest explanation is most often the correct one. -- Lincoln Child
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. -- Hector Hugh Munro
Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable. -- Oscar Wilde
A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory. -- W. Edwards Deming
Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars. -- Lionel
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. -- George Iles
Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity. -- David Deutsch
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation. -- Hilton Kramer
The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation. -- Dale Carnegie
An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation. -- Ethel Mumford
The future, and the future alone, is the home of explanation. -- Henry Dwight Sedgwick
The work of a man is the explanation of the man. -- Paul Gauguin
And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation? -- Julio Cortazar
There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life. -- Meat Loaf
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters. -- Jesse Jackson
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. -- William of Ockham
Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation. -- Marilynne Robinson
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Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question. -- Johannes Kepler
Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple. -- Langston Hughes
Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are! -- H. G. Wells
One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another. -- Takuan Soho
Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest]. -- George Leigh Mallory
A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum. -- Ernst Bacon
They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation. -- Geoffrey Wood
The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother. -- James Whistler
In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it. -- Tahir Shah
There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is. -- Russell Crowe
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation. -- Rita Dove
If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany. -- Criss Jami
Love is a sickness. Some kind of a pathogen existing above all explanation. -- Craig Davidson
Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation. -- Robert Foster Bennett
Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation. -- Renata Adler
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation. -- Anne Carson
Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation. -- Maria Montessori
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. -- Paulo Coelho
Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs? -- David Foster Wallace
A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct. -- James Rachels
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition. -- John Wooden
If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate. -- Lou Holtz
The best explanation why people agree is that they have converged on true answers. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened. -- Robert Breault
It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism) -- Woodrow Wilson
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. -- Richard Dawkins
In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. -- Louise Wilder
I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of -- Ray Charles
God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. -- Oswald Chambers
To a critic, no explanation will do. To a fan, no explanation is needed. -- Jeff Jarrett

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