Broad Thinking Quotes

Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

We never try to think in terms of any competitive product or company. If you do that, you just focus on a certain narrow area. Rather, we should think much more broadly.

I perceive myself as rather uninhibited, with a certain mathematical facility and more interest in the broad aspect of a problem than the delicate nuances. I am more interested in discovering what is over the next rise than in assiduously cultivating the beautiful garden close at hand.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of 'I', the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

Learn to think continentally.

Most of my colleagues have been insulated in Indian music alone - they did not think of the world beyond what they knew - but I always did and still do.

Will localizes us, thought universalizes us.