Depth Over Breadth Quotes

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

Read much, but not many works.

But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you dig as deep as you can. This is what I've done.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...

The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface.