Narrower Quotes
34 quotes by 34 authors
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits…
— Felix Dennis
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The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of the universe, any…
— Philip J. Klass
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The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it…
— Alexander Calder
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If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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I honor businesses for what they do, I honor nonprofits for what they do, I honor government for what it does, and then I invite…
— Bernie Glassman
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Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a…
— Barbara Fredrickson
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The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The…
— Dalai Lama
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Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public…
— Albert Einstein
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The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower
— Michael Longley
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Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation,…
— Karl E. Weick
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The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him…
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast,…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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I do not think it is any benefit for artists or fans to have all the new, wide distribution channels in the online world controlled…
— Orrin Hatch
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Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that…
— John Selden
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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
— Thomas Hood
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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The…
— Konrad Lorenz
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow…
— Florence Nightingale
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The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is…
— Philip K. Dick
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She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower." "And?" Eddis prompted. "Well,"…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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