Narrowly Focused Quotes

#1. A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

Lars Peter Hansen

#2. When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

Taiye Selasi

#3. If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

Larry Page

#4. The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.

Barry Commoner

#5. Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

Samuel Wilson

#6. Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

Ha-Joon Chang

#7. I think it is a huge honor to get to go play for the troops who have been working their tails off for several years, some with several tours under their belt.

Joe Nichols

#8. The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

Paul Farmer

#9. Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race ...

Voltaire

#10. Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.

Saul Bellow

#11. [Politicians] - they'll give you everything you want to your face - and then, as you walk away, they'll shoot you in the back because it's fun to watch you die.

Robert Crandall

#12. He's an engineer. Wu's the same. They're both technicians. 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.

Michael Crichton

#13. Love always costs more than you can afford to pay," he said. "And it's always worth the price.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#14. It's the invention of clothes, not nature, that made "private parts" private.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. Prayer begins where our power ends.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#16. 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.

Michael Crichton

#17. If I have 1% of my dad's brain, I'll be happy. He's so quick.

Tamara Ecclestone

#18. This book argues that the history of federal student loan policies is best understood as a series of messes in which attention became focused on some particular aspect of a larger problem and well-intentioned policies were devised to address each narrowly defined concern.

Joel Best