“I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.” WantWritingI CanBookHardNovelStruggleReaderSizeScopeFollow MeCathedrals Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.” WayDiesFightingLanguageNaturalAbilityAnswersMastersConsciousAppearanceFormerDislikeScopeAdmirerRecitingNatural GiftsFooling Around Book:Hitch-22: A Memoir Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir
“I've loved the "Star Wars" movies for the ride and pure fun and found that it just didn't stand up when asked for more, particularly when it comes to back stories, prequels, spin-offs, encyclopedic scope, etc.” WarStoriesFoundFunStarsPureEtcScopeWar MovieStar Wars Movie Author:Hank Stuever
“The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this country and later the world with the eye of a man educating himself. This is a central fact in the Mark Twain legacy. He became an American spokesman for the ideals of racial equality and dignity for the working man because he was willing to look the world in its face and see, really see what was happening to the people in it.” PeopleMenWorldHumansLooksCountryFactsEyeFacesHuman BeingsInterestingSawsWillingGrewDevelopmentHappeningsIdealsDignityMarkLegacyScopeWorking ManRacial Equality Author:Hal Holbrook
“I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative. so, I think I'll just write sequences for the foreseeable (the Beloved sequence doesn't have a 'plot' so I can just keep adding poems to it, it's like a giant bag I can just put beloved lyrics into - I think there are about 300 of them i've published by now).” ThinkingWantWritingI CanOne ThingCommittedNarrativeBelovedGiantsBagsPlotIntensityScopeSequenceArcs Author:Gregory Orr
“I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.” ThinkingStoriesSeemsNaturalShort StoryCanvasScope Author:Lauren Groff
“A conversation with you is a different thing than projecting to a couple hundred people. It's bigger and more animated and it's on a bigger scope, but still in the heart, it's honestly me.” PeopleHeartStillsDifferentCoupleConversationHundredBiggerHonestlyDifferent ThingsScopeAnimated Author:Craig Finn
“I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns is obviously much different than how another student learns and so I've had to figure out how to get through to people honestly without hurting their feelings - which is no easy task just in the scope of being a human being, much less in the classroom, but which is something that is more important to me now than it was when I was 30 - and to show them a path to improving.” PeopleThinkingYearsHumansImportantDifferentPhilosophyShowsFeelingsEasyHurtHuman BeingsPathTeachingFiguresStudentsYears AgoTasksHonestlyI've LearnedClassroomImprovingScopeEasy Tasks Author:Tod Goldberg
“I'm more into the perception scope of a work; I'm exploring this concept of perception and how people can look at someone, look at the community, and put in so much judgment, so much stereotype, so much misconception.” PeopleLooksCommunityJudgmentPerceptionConceptsExploringStereotypeScopeMisconception Author:eL Seed
“I'm always happy when I learn more about communication in the wide free scope of that word. So next is a move, getting the film made and working on more music everyday which is equally large in my being as filmmaking.” MadeFilmMovingNextCommunicationEverydayWideFilmmakingScopeAlways Happy Author:Giuseppe Andrews
“I wanted to present a sweep and scope of larger events, and a grander backdrop, but most important was to set against that a very singular, real and modest people struggling with every day and human struggles.” PeopleHumansImportantRealWantedStruggleEventsModestScopeBackdrop Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are dismissive of transhumanist claims, BUT the last 100 years has surely taught us never to underestimate the pace and scope of scientific progress. However, even if much of this turns out to be science-fiction, it also reveals a way of thinking about human life that I find deeply troubling.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayYearsHumansFactsLastsTurnsCoursesDifficultFictionProgressTaughtProjectsScientistClaimsRelationScience FictionHuman LifePaceUnderestimateScopeWay Of ThinkingTaught UsSingularityScientific Progress Author:George Pattison
“The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.” WritingDetermineLengthScope Author:Edward M. Lerner
“It took a week for me to be able to take the gun apart, put the gun back together, get the ammunition and load, all the while keeping my eyes down the scope, which was something I'd never had to do before.” EyeAbleTogetherWeekGunLoadScopeBack TogetherAmmunition Author:Katee Sackhoff
“I love that, for Kanye [West], there's no difference between the epic and the personal. That makes him sound like a really grandiose douche - which, I don't think anyone, himself included, could contest - but at the same time, it's really amazing. I love the scope of his perfectionism.” ThinkingSoundDifferencesWestEpicContestsScopePerfectionismReally AmazingGrandioseDouches Author:David Longstreth
“I'm working pretty slowly these days, but most of what it is, or a lot of what it is anyway, is kind of in the vein of "Bay of Pigs". Maybe not all in the same scope, but recorded using the same method and using some of the same sounds, or similar sounds.” KindSoundMethodThese DaysPigsVeinsScopeBay Of Pigs Author:King Khan
“By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of the impact you can have.” TeachingAchieveImpactInvestingExpandingScopeRoi Author:Ramez Naam
“When Peter Jackson did The Lord of the Rings trilogy with Fellowship of the Ring, not everyone had read Tolkien, and yet somehow with that scope and the spectacle of that fantasy, people were willing to give it a shot. And when they watched the first one, the characters drew them in and they started understanding the story. And then, all of a sudden, they were The Lord of the Rings fans, even if they never read Tolkien.” PeopleIfsGivingFirstsCharacterStoriesUnderstandingLordFantasyFansWillingShotsRingsPeterScopeFellowshipFellowship Of The RingTrilogies Author:Duncan Jones
“The fact that you have a policy of such consequence directly affecting millions of people and you have a legal question of great consequence about the scope of the president's authority to act in implementing the immigration laws in this way and you have a one-line decision from the court affirming by an equally-divided court, it's an inevitable consequence of where we are.” PeopleWayFactsLawPresidentLinesDecisionMillionsPolicyAuthorityConsequenceCourtImmigrationInevitableDividedScopeAffirmingOne LineImplementingImmigration Laws Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.” IfsThinkingMadeSelfProblemFormAttentionIssuesFocusFailingParticularCurrentsNeglectScopeSelf ContainedGlobal Issues Author:Ian Somerhalder
“Narrow scope of judicial power was the reason that people accepted the idea that the federal courts could have the power of judicial review; that is, the ability to decide whether a challenged law comports with the Constitution.” PeopleIdeasReasonLawAbilityConstitutionCourtAcceptedReviewsScopeJudicialJudicial PowerJudicial Review Author:Sam Brownback
“I built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I'm doing and if I look at the whole scope from chemistry to biology to physics, it's just the list is too long to mention just one and it's not fair to the others.” IfsLooksLongWholeEffortBuiltFairsScientistListsPhysicsJust OneBiologyChemistryScopeNot Fair Author:Ahmed H. Zewail
“In each of its forms, love has an infinite scope of potential expansion, all of which I see leading to growth.” FormGrowthInfiniteExpansionScope Author:Ian Somerhalder
“The thing with the Bourne movies is that they're so big in scope and the production value is so high and it takes so much organization.” BigsValuesOrganizationProductionsScopeBourne Author:Julia Stiles
“I think that tri [to Ram Bahadur Bomjon] was the first time I'd even seen something that made me think, or really feel: "Ah, I don't know what's really going on in the world - I think I do, and it feels like I do, but whatever is really going on is, de facto, beyond the scope of my comprehension - the best we can do is look for hints." I'd known that intellectually before but that was the first time I really believed it viscerally.” ThinkingKnowsWorldFeelsFirstsLooksMadeCan DoKnownFirst TimeScopeHintsComprehensionRams Author:George Saunders
“This scripture [Romans 13:1-6] is wrested from the scope of God's Spirit, and the nature of the place, and cannot truly be interpreted to mean that the power of the civil magistrate may be exercised in spiritual or soul matters.” MayMeanSoulMatterSpiritualSpiritScriptureScopeMagistrates Author:Roger Williams
“There is something about permanent military occupation which seems to confine a man's scope and limit his opportunities; and after he has had a few years under the circumscribed conditions of official routine, he generally find himself wholly out of touch with civil occupation.” MenYearsSeemsOpportunityConditionsMilitaryLimitsPermanentOfficialsOccupationRoutineScope Author:John Monash
“While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups, he has in a more fundamental sense concealed the real goal - getting judges who will ratify an ever-expanding scope of the power of the federal government and an ever-declining restraint by the Constitution of the United States. This is consistent with everything else that Obama has done in office and is consistent with his decades-long track record of alliances with people who reject the fundamentals of American society.” PeopleWantLongRealStatesDoneHandsGovernmentCertainGoalPresidentUnitedUnited StatesRecordsGroupsJudgingOfficeEmpathyConstitutionFundamentalsTrackDecadesBarackConsistentRejectsRestraintFederal GovernmentExpandingScopeAlliancesConcealedPresident Barack ObamaAmerican SocietyConstitution Of The United StatesTrack Record Author:Thomas Sowell
“Before a negotiation can proceed and be completed, what is outside the scope of negotiation needs to be agreed.” NeedsNegotiationScope Author:Christine Lagarde
“I like to keep a broad scope and read lots of different things with lots of different types of characters. Doing that is going to help develop me as an actor; you push yourself.” DifferentCharacterHelpingActorsTypeDifferent ThingsBroadsScopePush Yourself Author:Asa Butterfield
“The education of young people is narrowing. They cannot have the scope they used to have. They are being taught in high school by people earnest, still, but maybe less well-prepared than we would want them to be - but not because they are stupid or churlish.” PeopleWantWellsStillsSchoolYoungUsedStupidTaughtHigh SchoolPreparedEarnestScope Author:Frederick Busch
“I have an amazing team, and we find people who resonate with us, but sometimes our scope is still small because we are a pretty small group and we have so much work to do. We get approached a lot.” PeopleStillsSometimesGroupsTeamScopeSmall Groups Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“When we think of our world today with all of its interconnectedness and complexities, the scope of gospel renewal includes systems and structures that are far beyond what we might consider day-to-day.” ThinkingWorldMightTodayStructureComplexityOur WorldDay To DayScopeRenewalWorld TodayInterconnectedness Author:David Kim
“Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of election (who is saved?); the nature of the atonement (do we have to hold to penal substitution if we're Reformed?); the scope of the atonement (for whom did Christ die?); whether we have to hold to some sort of theological determinism (God ordains all that comes to pass).” IfsBookSometimesDiesChristLosesIssuesTreeElectionWoodsSavedSavingScopeTheologicalAtonementDeterminismSubstitutionCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“It is often reported that the Five Points of Calvinism are the conceptual hard-core of Reformed thought. That is very misleading. The Five Points supposedly originate with the Synod of Dort in the early seventeenth century. Yet we find important Reformed leaders who were signatories to that documentation who don't think that limited atonement is the right way to think about the scope of Christ's saving work. How can this be? The answer that recent historical theology has thrown up is that the canons of the Synod don't require adherence to the doctrine of limited atonement.” ThinkingWayImportantHardChristAnswersLeaderFiveCenturyHistoricalCoreTheologyDoctrineSavingThrownRight WayScopeMisleadAtonementCanonAdherenceCalvinismDocumentationHard Core Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“If the various groups in America had been less selfish and had permitted different representatives from the groups to travel into foreign countries, and broaden their own scope, and come back and educate the movements they represented, not only would this have made the groups to which they belonged more enlightened and more worldly in the international sense, but it also would have given the independent African states abroad a better understanding of the groups in the United States, and what they stand for, what they represent.” IfsMadeDifferentCountryStatesAmericaGivenUnderstandingUnitedUnited StatesGroupsMovementIndependentInternationalVariousSelfishEnlightenedEducateRepresentativesWorldlyScopeForeign Countries Author:Malcolm X
“Under our regional cooperation projects, we are building roads and bridges. The scope of regional cooperation [with China] is constantly growing.” GrowingBuildingProjectsChinaBridgesCooperationScopeBuilding RoadsRegional Cooperation Author:Vladimir Putin
“This conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important and I'm very pleased we were able to bring this to fruition between Canada and the E.U. We've made great progress, particularly if we look at one of the great global issues, namely climate protection, without the engagement of the current administration under the leadership of Barack Obama, this Paris agreement would never have come about.” IfsLooksMadeImportantAbleIssuesProgressTradeMereClimateCurrentsProtectionConclusionAdministrationBarackParisCanadaAgreementCustomsEngagementScopeFruitionTariffsTrade AgreementsGlobal IssuesGreat Progress Author:Angela Merkel
“I soon found I could not talk about that in a vacuum without understanding the historical, cultural, political context, and giving it some legacy and some roots, and so then it just started to have tentacles that just spread out in all these places, and already a vicious project became pretty overwhelming in scope, and so it was a lot of diligent, day-to-day fighting with the footage, trying to get it down to a place where it was manageable and emotional.” GivingTryingPoliticalFightingFoundUnderstandingEmotionalProjectsRootsHistoricalSpreadLegacyOverwhelmingDay To DayViciousScopeVacuumsDiligentManageableTentacles Author:Ava DuVernay
“Scope movies shown on TV letter-boxed are always the big budget movies.” BigsTvsLettersBudgetsScope Author:Gaspar Noe
“People sometimes, they just stop because they see this scope movie. They say "oh, this is a real movie, this is not a TV movie."” PeopleRealSometimesTvsScope Author:Gaspar Noe
“I think it's possible for me to approach the whole problem with a broader scope.When you look at something through an, an organizational eye, whether it's a, a religious organization, political organization, or a civic organization, if you look at it only through the eye of that organization, you see what the organization wants you to see. But you lose your ability to be objective.” IfsThinkingWantLooksWholeProblemEyePoliticalLosesReligiousAbilityApproachOrganizationObjectivesScopeCivicsThrough The EyesOrganizational Author:Malcolm X
“I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost impossible for any organization to see it in its entirety.” LooksTwoProblemMillionsImpossibleOrganizationTwentiesBroadsScopeEntiretyTwenty TwoAfros Author:Malcolm X
“When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable in the event of a disaster. I was not aware of the scope of mass surveillance. I came across some legal questions when I was creating it. My superiors pushed back and were like, "Well, how are we going to deal with this data?" And I was like, "I didn't even know it existed."” KnowsWellsDealsEventsCreatingMassDisasterSuperiorsDataJapanScopeSurveillance Author:Edward Snowden
“The Far East and Eastern Siberia are already developing according to a Chinese scenario, the full scope of which will be revealed in the near future. In the next 10 to 15 years, a lot of Russian territories will become at least de facto Chinese. This will change the situation in Russia fundamentally.” YearsNextSituationEastRussiaDevelopingChineseTerritoryEasternScopeScenariosSiberia Author:Garry Kasparov
“Best advice, bro: Think big. Don't think small. If you think small, then you're going to stay small. Think (about) the broad scope.” IfsThinkingBigsAdviceBroadsScopeThink BigBest AdviceBros Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers to progress in other domains, just as the properties that enable each child to acquire a complex and highly articulated human language block the acquisition of other imaginable linguistic systems.” MindHumansChildrenLanguageProgressGeniusPropertyComplexesEnormousBlockAcquireBarriersHuman MindDomainScopeAcquisitionHuman Language Author:Noam Chomsky
“There never has been a desire on the part of the government that the struggle of Black people in America should be linked to the struggle of our people in every part of the earth. Every leader that was international in scope and in reach became the target of the government - Paul Robeson, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Kwame Ture and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Any Black leader who would try to connect us to our brothers and sisters in Africa and Asia were seen as a threat and became a target.” PeopleShouldTryingHas BeensGovernmentEarthAmericaDesireBlackLeaderStruggleBrotherKingsThreatInternationalTargetBlack PeopleHonorableAsiaBrothers And SistersLinkedScopeLutherMuhammadElijahElijah MuhammadHonorable Elijah MuhammadDubois Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Good leaders, competent leaders must see it as primary task to create friendliness. This something within the scope of most people. Now artists, like writers and sort of course have an added option of using their scale and talent with this in view. It is their business to create an environment in which our people will prosper and be happy.” PeopleArtistCoursesViewsLeaderEnvironmentTalentTasksScalesPrimariesScopeCompetentGood LeaderFriendliness Author:Chinua Achebe
“I think there's a lot of scope in broadening the way videogames approach depictions of masculinity, which is still extremely narrow in scope. It would be nice to see a panel about gender in videogames and it not just be about one gender!” ThinkingWayStillsWould BeNiceApproachGenderBeing NiceMasculinityScopeDepictionVideogame Author:Neil Druckmann