Narrow Scope Quotes

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

I have no concern with widening audience.

The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of 'I', the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'

Don't focus on what Trump says. Focus on the results of his actions. Stay in your lane and focus on one particular area.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth... At the end of the day, however, their confession is heard by no one: they work with a single scientific sample-life on Earth.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

Nothing could be more restrictive than working with people in advertising.

Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.

It's fairly common knowledge that a startup can't execute on two products simultaneously.

The writer studies literature, not the world.

I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in, which is our earth; who respect and love nothing beyond it: people as limited as what they call their property or their estate, which can be measured, whose acres can be counted, whose boundaries can be shown.

Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.

I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.

The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.

But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic - to be focused on one or two things - which has some strengths as well as weaknesses.

My world is kind of small.

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

You can be a big fish in a small pond, but you're only going to be competing against people at that level.