Limited Scope Quotes

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant.

Also, there is a way I like to lead my life, which would adhere to certain norms. Anything that goes beyond that is not my purview.

There are two ways to fail. The first is to not make your plan. The second is to make your plan and your plan is not big enough. Most people fail in the second way. They make their plans by month, by quarter and by year.

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

We knew we were making records for a certain demographic. We didn't look outside of that.

She was loved deeply, but not widely

He [Neville Chamberlain] saw foreign policy through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

They are big fish in a small pond.

There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you make a flick, there are maybe two things you're trying to put into that flick. You can put the other things in another time.

My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of product.

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.

My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

I have a job to do, I have a wife and child to take care of. So I don't pay attention to things that I don't know anything about. I've got my own situation to deal with.

I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.

American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders.

Change can only be in the limited.

You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.

There's no exploration anymore, except in a very few places.

I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be focused on writing novels. It's one of the real advantages I've had over the years. I've only been good at one thing. It helps to be limited.