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Narrow streets are beautiful because you are closer to the realities!
The road you travel might horribly get narrower; do not panic! Keep your spirits high; the road will get wider!
I would rather have a short life with width rather than a narrow one with length.
Learn wider, grow wiser!
Even though this world is narrow, it is wide ... to those who understand.
This world isn't the only one.
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away
With each draft, the work gets better, and usually that means tighter. It means getting the precise word, not the approximate word.
In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.
Expansion (both far and wide) is the order of the day
Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand.
Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.
Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand
The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.
Hunter deepened it.
It is the business of little minds to shrink.
I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them onto those which are too small; a species of 'equitable adjustment,' as a radical would term it, which cannot be admitted in science.
The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.
You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.
What you focus on gets prettier; what you love gets closer.
themselves shrinking until they were
The closer you'll look,
The farther you'll see !
When being extremely judgmental about something, we are likely to narrow our eyes.
the distance fills and nearness is a void
The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.
When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet ... When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world ...
It had expanded in a nice, welcoming way, becoming ever rounder and softer without losing its essential shapeliness
There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people
We move closer together like sections of a tightened shoelace
I love a broad margin to my life.
What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.
Arsenal's width comes from wide areas
Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.
Seeing the small is called Clarity.
Keeping flexible is called Strength.
Using the shining Radiance,
You enter the Light,
Where no harm can come to you.
This is called Enlightenment.
How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What's Wrong with the World)
There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well.
horizontally compressed
To broaden your thinking, you have to expand the scope of your mind and imagination
Life expands when you dare and share. Life shrinks when you seek consistency and fear.
When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope
It's hard to look at things that are too close.
Through a narrow window we can see only part of the sky, and not the whole vastness, the magnificence of it.
When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellant, but I could no longer find them.
Emphasize the best, and minimize the rest
So in fact, narrowing down our choices means less overwhelm, and more creativity.
Diminishing returns is the outcome of restriction
Identify, I've learned, can be sliced many ways and there is gain with every loss.
I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.
For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.
Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships, Language. Sensibility.
They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.
The closer you look, the more you see.
The thick plottens.
Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.
The world has narrowed to these dimensions,
Life is squinchy.
My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.
We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome and vulgarized distortion is so fine.
Pruning is strategic. It is directional and forward-looking. It is intentional toward a vision, desires, and objectives that have been clearly defined and are measurable. If you have that, you know what a rose is, and pruning will help you get one of true beauty.
Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
Remember, what you focus on expands; results follow focus.
What we think about, expands.
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
Never shrink from making a difference.
Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over.
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.
In my experience, cutting back is the crucial act that allows the vitality, precision and emotional heart of a piece of writing to emerge.
Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.
Then open your legs for me, there's a good lass no, a bit wider, aye? He
The narrower their lives, the wider their hips.
I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery.
It was as though the edges of things were where the greater part might be hidden - where he could find more.
CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.
Nothing is such an enemy to accuracy of judgment as a coarse discrimination; a want of such classification and distribution as the subject admits of.
The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.
What you focus on expands. So focus on what you want, not what you do not want.
When our inner vision opens, our horizons expand.
I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.
Isn't it curious that narrow-minded people are often the most thickheaded?
The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.
What you focus on grows!
Let the mind be enlarged ... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind
People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.
Always be closing.
Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.
You simply realize that defining what you need in order to stay open actually ends up limiting you.
Control, edit and distill.