Quotes About Narrowness

You had to be fundamentally stupid , I sometimes thought, to become the sort of academic specialist that hiring committees liked. You had to be thick somehow. You had to block out all the other things in the world to focus on one narrow, particular thing.

with skills that do not transfer outside of the very machine that they trained on.

So we make decisions and base our lives on those decisions, never realizing we're only seeing one-tenth of the whole. Then we cling to our narrow conclusions like our lives depend on it.

Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit; he knows one thing extremely well and is ignorant of almost everything else.

directing their narrow little lives by narrow little formulas—herd-creatures, flocking together and patterning their lives by one another's opinions, failing of being individuals and of really living life because of the childlike formulas by which they were enslaved. 

Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand gernades

Biliyor musun, senle ben -garip ÅŸey- ayn? yolun yolcusuyuz asl?nda. Ä°kimizin de evleri biraz büyükçe ama gene de bir bak?ma bize dar geliyor.

Wer die Enge seiner Heimat begreifen will, der reise. Wer die Enge seiner Zeit ermessen will, studiere Geschichte.

As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm.

she hated and detested Nicholas with all the narrowness of mind and littleness of purpose worthy a descendant of the house of Squeers.

It is terrible at times to think of the power that strong conviction combined with extreme narrowness of mind gives a man possessing prestige. It is none the less necessary that these conditions should be satisfied for a man to ignore obstacles and display strength of will in a high measure. Crowds instinctively recognise in men of energy and conviction the masters they are always in need of.

Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make sure that Barack Obama is focused on them with things that will make a difference. They know he tried, but they also know that it didn't do as well as they would have liked.

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough one-ness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.

There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.

the dark side of individualism is a centering on the self, which both flattens and narrows our lives, makes them poorer in meaning, and less concerned with others or society.

Perhaps we can think of fundamentalism as a stifling, an asphyxiation, and constipation of the soul.

The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.

Precision can be suffocating

origin: it is narrowing!

They would always find excuses to slip away, afraid to reveal the narrowness of their knowledge.