Narrowly Quotes

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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry… — Russell Baker
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those… — Martin Seligman
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect… — David Hume
A man's reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him. — Joseph Addison
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition… — Benoit Mandelbrot
The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching. — Isaac Asimov
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters… — Alvin Toffler
Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation… — Robert Stawell Ball
Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right… — Billy Graham
It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel that you are restricted to… — Wilfred Bion
Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in… — Paul Strand
Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell. — Poul Anderson
We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as… — Andrea Dworkin
[The] dynamics of computational artifacts extend beyond the interface narrowly defined, to relations of people with each other and to the place of computing in… — Lucy Suchman
Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority.… — Murasaki Shikibu
Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important.… — Chris Argyris
Itâ€™s interesting to look at your children as line-in Zen masters who can put their finger on places where youâ€™re resistant, or thinking narrowly, in… — Jon Kabat-Zinn

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