Quotes About Narrowing

As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.

Once the world sees you as that one thing, and the better you are at that thing, the more you can only be that thing.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

For documentaries, I think streaming plays an amazing role, but it's a problem when the one service you initially relied on to have an incredible buffet - 'Come and see a lot of world cinema, and the lives of ordinary people as well' - all of a sudden is narrowed down until it's just gladiator after gladiator - and bloodlust.

When you try to be everything, you wind up being nothing.

It's no secret that there are people who would like to narrow our discussions on climate change to a debate about pipelines alone in an attempt to divide Canadians - to pit workers against environmentalists.

I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.

By forcing schools and teachers to teach to the test, it has narrowed the educational experiences of millions of children and thus deprived our children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, of a real education.

You narrow hope when you define it.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I've got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

he believed the window of time through which he could enter was shrinking.

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

At the end of the day if you want to effectively market to a target group, you're not going to appeal to everybody. Those companies that try and cater to everybody, end up making everybody not care.

Emotions tend to narrow the mind, making us focus on one or two ideas that satisfy our immediate desire for power or attention, ideas that usually backfire.

People tend to think that scientists are experts in all things, when in fact we can be so specialized we know less

Serendipitous connections become less likely as increased communication narrows our tastes and interests. Knowing and caring more and more about less and less. This tendency may increase productivity in a narrow sense while decreasing social cohesion.

the more specialized you become, the more you are trapped and dependent on that specialty.

different sort. The gravity squeezed out the freedom. It felt like one strike and you're out. One attempt at a theory. Neagley said, "Every avenue comes back to the exact same

When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.