Quotes About Narrowing

What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at the varied world the common thread, the unifying theme through immense diversity, a fearlessness of growth, of search, of looking, that enlarges the private and the public world. And yet, in our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.

Reading was for him a narrowing, not a widening experience He saw himself as a teacher and reformer born to change the world.

From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

Listen to your gut. Are decisions more expansive or narrowing?

When we systematically attempt to narrow a choice, the perspective we most often neglect is our own experience.

From Heartbreak Hotel: (Thalia)" knew how tot focus on what was important and she kept things simple" "Live long enough and everything becomes. Live long enough and your interests narrow

when what felt like a wide distribution of probable outcomes narrows to the inevitable.

The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.

The web promises to make our world bigger. But as it works now, it also narrows our exposure to ideas. We can end up in a bubble in which we hear only the ideas we already know. Or already like.

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

The tunnel was the place where vision narrows and the investigator sees only the bird in hand.

One afternoon we needed to urge the barge between the narrowing banks of the Romford Canal, my sister and I stationed on opposite sides of the deck yelling directions to The Darter at the wheel. The last hundred yards of the cut were almost fully overgrown. At its end there was a lorry waiting, and two men approached the boat and unloaded the boxes wordlessly

The higher up the rugby ladder you go, the differences between winning and losing games get smaller and smaller.

Mascara was dripping down her cheeks, splattering on her shirt. She backed away from him, eyes narrowing. Her shoes squished with the movement and, as she peered uncomprehendingly down at them, a tadpole emerged from the leg of her jeans and flopped about on the ground. " Eem! She pointed a shaking finger at it. "A tadpole. I had a tadpole in my pants!" "Lucky tadpole," he murmured. -Adam and Gabrielle

realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

When you're trying to force things in a script, it seems like it's getting somewhere, but it isn't real or interesting. All the bad material you've written becomes an albatross around your neck. So I really don't like writing a lot of bad stuff, I prefer to just keep narrowing it down to stuff I think is solid.

The order of the day is specialization!

I suppose it is the bane of mortality to suffer time as it narrows and confines, to know that never again will anything seem as wide, as open, as attainable as it did in our youth.

All around me the options seemed to be narrowing, as if I were hurtling down a huge black funnel, the whole world squeezing in tight.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.