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The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
Charley Pride
Music
Fans
Country
Music Fans
Defined
Range
Record
Record Company
Consultants
Country Music
Limited
Narrow
Tastes
Company
Programmers
Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.
Charlie Bewley
You
Run
Something
Narrow
Up
Getting
Straight
Keeps
Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
Chuck Close
Good
You
People
Too
Say
Focused
Someone
More
Most
Narrow
Very
Than
Often
Mean
Many
Actually
Things
I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.
Chuck Hagel
War
You
Believe
Channels
Those
Never
Countries
Deal
Narrow
Go
Iraq
Afghanistan
Believed
Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research.
Clayton M. Christensen
Great
You
People
Research
Publish
Think
Way
Great Ideas
Tenure
Journals
Come
Academic
Ideas
Narrow
Up
Very
Closing
Where
Door
Process
Which
Stands
Universities
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
Damian Lewis
You
Experience
Examine
Only
Part
Particular
Because
Isolated
Narrow
Acting
Your
A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
Dan Gelber
Needs
You
Achievement
Celebrate
Financial
Strong
School
Will
Accountability
Mediocrity
Broaden
Adequate
System
Only
Investment
True
Until
Well
Without
Understands
Narrow
Continue
Expense
Curriculum
Happen
Cannot
Bar
Florida
Funding
Raise
Need
Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
Daniel H. Pink
You
People
Complicated
Behavior
Too Many People
Own
Research
Believe
Too
Way
Carrot
Promise
Pretty
More
Only
Clear
Simply
Over
Look
Stick
Narrow
Motivates
Motivation
Years
Very
Jab
Than
Get
Human
Human Beings
Hold
Moving
Scrutinize
Us
View
Your
Many
Beings
I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.
Danielle Brooks
Me
People
Path
Misfits
Exciting
Underdogs
Like
Narrow
Straight
Who
Play
We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.
David A. Bednar
Life
Faith
Progress
Path
Christ
Will
State
Our
Press
Destiny
Steady
Steady Progress
Attain
Perfection
Toward
Along
Make
Narrow
Eternal
Strait
Should
Forward
Aspiring entrepreneurs are often advised to work at a startup for a couple of years first, to understand what's involved. But often, each company's approach to success is very narrow. So my advice is, 'Just do it.'
David Cohen
Success
Work
First
Advice
Just Do It
Startup
Approach
Entrepreneurs
Involved
Couple
Advised
Understand
Narrow
Years
Very
Often
Just
Success Is
Aspiring
Company
Each
The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.
David Hewson
You
Channel
Invader
Crossing
Since
Narrow
Wondering
Cannot
Little
Succeeded
Help
English
Why
Honestly, I am a fan of the game like anyone else, so my favorite players' list is pretty big. But if we are to narrow it down to England, I have a lot of respect for Wayne Rooney and the things he has achieved for club and country.
David Villa
Game
Respect
Country
Big
Club
Down
Honestly
Else
Wayne
Favorite
Pretty
He
Like
Narrow
Am
Lot
List
Achieved
Anyone
Fan
Anyone Else
England
Things
Players
Our field is very focused on finding Earth 2.0, and anything we can do to narrow the search is helpful.
Debra Fischer
Field
Our
Earth
Focused
Finding
Narrow
Very
Anything
Helpful
Search
Our adversaries - our Democratic adversaries - like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts - narrow based, always have some agenda that's not attractive to the public... That's easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant.
Dick Cheney
Problems
Party
Own
Think
Our
Easier
Significant
Able
Some
More
Adversaries
Like
Democratic
Attractive
Dealing
Always
Narrow
Bunch
Than
Republican
Republican Party
Public
Them
Agenda
Fun
Based
Portray
Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.
Dolores del Rio
World
Rest
Else
No-One
Pictures
Talks
Narrow
Motion
Motion Pictures
Anything
Anything Else
Place
Hollywood
Far
Far Away
Away
Thinks
The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources, it's processing, it's manufacturing, it's distributing, it's consuming. That's what the computer's real work does, and it does that 24/7, 365 days a year, non-stop, just to satisfy our own narrow needs.
Douglas Tompkins
Work
Needs
World
Year
Own
Our
Resources
Eating
Economic
Economic Activity
Computer
Consuming
Days
Acceleration
Non-Stop
Does
Narrow
Real
Up
Just
Real Work
Processing
Manufacturing
Mechanism
Activity
Satisfy
Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.
Edmund Phelps
Financed
Adequately
Ensure
Enterprises
Small
Could
Consumers
Economy
Narrow
Effective
Contribute
Banks
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Edmund Waller
Good
Me
Rest
Sun
Give
Give Me
Take
Bound
Fair
Narrow
Goes
Round
Compass
Democracy demands that judges confine themselves to a narrow sphere of influence - that is why the late Alexander Bickel called the judiciary the 'Least Dangerous Branch.' In a world governed by a proper conception of their role, judges don't play at being legislators - they leave that job to our elected representatives.
Edwin Meese
Democracy
World
Dangerous
Job
Judiciary
Alexander
Late
Our
Sphere
Proper
Demands
Conception
Judges
Narrow
Least
Leave
Governed
Branch
Role
Representatives
Confine
Legislators
Being
Influence
Themselves
Elected
Why
Play
I get a blood test every six months to narrow down what could be causing fatigue, exhaustion, dark thoughts, and obviously, eventually, how to be in my top shape. Blood doesn't lie. From vitamins that I'm lacking to natural foods, it's an educated guide to connect my physical internal and external look.
Eiza Gonzalez
Thoughts
Natural
Lie
Dark
Down
Every
Fatigue
Top
Guide
Months
Physical
Vitamins
Foods
Could
Shape
Look
Obviously
How
Narrow
Exhaustion
Educated
Test
Causing
Blood
Get
Lacking
Six
Internal
Connect
Eventually
External
School boards are, for the most part,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.
Eli Broad
People
School
Political
Parents
Few
Group
Other
See
Some
About
Stepping
Stepping Stone
Most
Understand
Well-Meaning
Narrow
Geography
Governance
Up
Office
Few People
Stone
Represent
Board
Boards
Them
Interests
Ethnic
Who
Seat
Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.
Eli Pariser
Democracy
Problems
Own
Address
See
Able
Outside
Step
Sort
Self-Interest
Narrow
Common
Public
Them
Requires
Whole
Actually
Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.
Eric Ries
Time
Needs
You
Science
Worrying
Out
About
Someone
Cases
Except
Narrow
Very
Patent
Trying
Where
Anyway
Breakthrough
Toast
Production
Who
Waste
Waste Of Time
Copy
Competitors
I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
F. Gary Gray
Success
Great
You
Cause
Nervous
First
Type
Hesitant
Pleasantly
Ways
Classic
Road
Wrong
Great Story
Tale
Like
Know
Read
Because
Got
Narrow
Surprised
Very
Get
Story
Little
Straight
Many
Right
Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.
F. Sionil Jose
Culture
World
Perspective
Values
Folk
Cosmopolitan
Above
Narrow
Very
Transcendental
Interest
Japan
Japanese
View
Origins
World View
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