Narrowing Quotes
46 quotes by 44 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.
— Joan Didion
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Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.
— Corliss Lamont
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It’s not about electing the right people. It’s about a narrowing their responsibilities.
— John Stossel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
Who Wrote These Narrowing Quotes
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