It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill.

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

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.

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.

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.

I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination creates, not simply in explanation of what is there but also to explain or justify the feeling of awe and attachment that the heavens inspire.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.

My husband was a serial adulterer, and there was nothing I could do about it: no questions I could ask him, no argument I could have with him, no explanation he could give me or pleas he could make for forgiveness.

I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

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.

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.