Narrowing Quotes

46 quotes by 44 authors

Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also… — Martha Stewart
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take… — Liz Carpenter
You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities… — Jeffrey Pfeffer
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
Man, I have absolutely zero ability into narrowing absolutely any of my favorites into just one, but I have to say, I gotta go between… — Shawn Michaels
Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus. — Joan Didion
Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range. — Corliss Lamont
Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God. — Oswald Chambers
A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of… — Hakim Bey
A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can… — Annie Dillard
I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make… — David Lynch
By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right... Their concept of a diversity of… — Ben Bagdikian
Itâ€™s not about electing the right people. Itâ€™s about a narrowing their responsibilities. — John Stossel
I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it. — Ella Maillart
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the… — Alfred the Great
Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his… — Albert Einstein
Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both. — Peter R. Orszag
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
From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness… — Arthur Koestler

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