An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.
Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.
Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit.
When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence
I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.
I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper.
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.
Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.
Something clenched in my chest, and for a moment, the whole world narrowed down to the green of his eyes.
