Narrowing Options Quotes

MTV definitely has the effect of narrowing the range of music that hits the mainstream. On the other hand, isn't that the effect of television in general?

The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.

Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

I did a show in New Jersey in the auditorium of a technical high school ... Technical high school, that's where dreams are narrowed down. We tell our children, "You can do anything you want." Their whole lives. "You can do anything!" But this place, we take kids - they're 15, they're young - and we tell them, "You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you."

When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.

If I only concentrated on one thing, I would limit myself in life.

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

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.

I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.