Prescriptive Quotes

We're trying to give people the information they need to decide their approach; we're not telling them what to do, we're not being prescriptive. - Carolyn Clancy

We want to be more prescriptive. - David Carlson

We want people to come forward with different ideas. We are learning from procurements past that if you go out with a wholly prescriptive vision of what you want, very often you end with a product that isn't as good and costs more. You have to be open to innovation. - Andy Burnham

We don't think that its necessary to take a prescriptive approach, which is what EPIC is suggesting for security. - John Walls

We don't know how many countries are going to put forward measures and we don't know how much those measures will cost. We didn't want to be too prescriptive, we wanted to leave it to the member states to adapt the measures to the national situation. - Michael Mann

The new changes are a promising sign. We see this as a change of focus away from overly prescriptive regulation. - Ron Bertram

I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films. - Paul Auster

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive. - Edward Bond