Narrow Focus Quotes

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

The media is a like any other group of people. Their universe is all that matters.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

He who defends everything defends nothing.

When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

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

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

Politicians are like horses, they cannot go properly without blinkers.

I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.

I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

All I really worry about is my little world.

They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.

The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.

A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is made strong, not through much learning, but by the thorough possession of something.

It's not about creating something that eight billion people would like. It's about creating something and being able to reach the maybe, like, one million people that would like it a lot.

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.

The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!