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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.
Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.
There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!
The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.
The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.
I think that's what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether it's education or housing.
The most forward-leaning leaders are single-minded about creating company cultures that foster a true spirit of innovation.
The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was such a narrow track in comparison to today.
I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there.
KRS-One is one of my favorite rappers ever. I actually don't even know why I have this on my computer, but I do. I really like this album, Criminal Minded.
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that.
If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.
And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive.
My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.
It's better for the country when each party looks like it stands for something serious, for some big things, but they're not narrow and they're not bought.
The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it - and I do - and subtle - beige, pink, white, tan, taup.
The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.
As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.
Since Sabu was the first guy that I was in the ring with professionally, we have the longest history in my career, and also, we were like minded.
San Francisco is a lot like Amsterdam - free, open-minded and casual - though I expected better weather.
rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.
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.
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.
Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.
Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
Our true fans won't go anywhere. Hopefully they will be open-minded towards how we are growing as musicians and as women.
My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.
One of the real ways out of conflict is humour. It builds bridges; it's a weapon against rigid ideology, narrow thinking, intolerance.
The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.
What shall we call this undetermin'd state,
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans,
That whence we came, and that to which we tend?
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.
Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve.
Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.
There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so heavenly minded that it is no earthly good.
I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.
We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
My main ambition as a teenager was to somehow resurrect the dark-minded writer Franz Kafka and become his girlfriend.
At the end of the day, the only way that I was able to thrive was by people giving me a chance, not being close-minded.
Sure, I didn't weigh a hundred and ten pounds , but my narrow waist let me bend and I could break a man's neck with my kick.
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
I think thats what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether its education or housing.
The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.
A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
One of our Constitution's greatest virtues is that it looks to judges as a source of reasoned, practical, rights-minded decision making.
No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.
Alliance is not to show individual strength, but win over the opposition by pooling in all the votes of like-minded parties and ensuring that they are not scattered.
We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.
