Narrow Quotes
836 Narrow quotes by 671 unique authors
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I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the…
— Unknown Author
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I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance…
— William O. Douglas
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These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion…
— Joan D. Vinge
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I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose…
— Blaise Cendrars
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I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but…
— Irving Penn
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I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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We need to remember that though we make our friends, God has made our neighbors – everywhere. Love should have no boundary; we should have…
— Howard W. Hunter
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On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when not engaged in…
— Paul Feyerabend
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Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.
— Theodor Herzl
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Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting has…
— Joan Miro
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The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky…
— Peter F. Hamilton
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England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.
— Hanif Kureishi
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A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.
— Henry Ford
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Tony [Campolo] and I might disagree on the details, but I think we are both trying to find an alternative to both traditional Universalism and…
— Brian D. McLaren
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For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and…
— Christopher Dawson
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When you are in the line of your duty, it is like standing in front of a line of posts, and every post is in…
— Heber J. Grant
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In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping…
— Reinhold Messner
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We need to take a less narrow look at our children’s problems and, instead, see them as windows of opportunity—a way of exploring and understanding…
— Stanley Greenspan
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Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
— Al Ries
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