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Broader Quotes

Lines about widening the view beyond the familiar.

These quotes explore what it means to reach past a narrow lane, from broadcasters aiming at audiences in the tens of millions to writers who benefit from experience outside their usual field. One line makes the case plainly: a narrow reader has little new to offer, while broader exposure brings more to any table. See related ideas on the Life quotes page.

There's a lingering notion that elites continue to lead, and the masses will follow. This historic model of influence was predicated on the belief that elites have access to superior information and their interests are interconnected with those of the...

Quotes by Richard Edelman

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

Quotes by Rich Lowry

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the...

Quotes by Reid Hoffman

Donald Trump will become president even after losing the popular vote in our November elections by a wide margin. To govern effectively, he must appeal to a broader base than what he campaigned on and avoid the divisive rhetoric that...

Quotes by Raja Krishnamoorthi

Your movie becomes much more narrow-minded when you have like-minded department heads. Whereas if you can surround yourself with people who have been a mother before, been a grandmother before, you get a much broader and wide-reaching swath of human...

Quotes by Rachel Morrison

I wish I had paid more attention in my psych class in college. I would've had a broader vocabulary to draw from.

Quotes by Phyllis Smith

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.

Quotes by Phillip E. Johnson

History shows one important fact: the results of competitive special elections from Hawaii to New York are poor indicators of broader trends or future general election outcomes.

Quotes by Pete Sessions

Political reporting is too often trivialised, treated as a soap opera based in Westminster, rather than placed in a broader social or economic context.

Quotes by Owen Jones

Let's demonstrate, illustrate, the ways in which our communities are being undermined time and time again, and make sure that the broader public and those in power choose to stand with us.

Quotes by Opal Tometi

Hit records create slang, and if you create slang, you get into a broader conversation level.

Quotes by No I.D.

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

Quotes by Niall Ferguson

'Ninnu Kori' urges us to take a broader view of life, look past stumbling blocks, and rise above self sympathy.

Quotes by Nani

I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.

Quotes by Mike Huckabee

The immigrant experience in 'Ilustrado' was only a small part of what I intended to be a broader look at the Filipino experience, even if that broader look was itself merely a specific perspective.

Quotes by Miguel Syjuco

Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that...

Quotes by Michael Porter

There's this movie, 'Zero Dark Thirty' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Some have complained that too many 'secrets' were dished out by the intelligence and special operations communities to director Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and their crew,...

Quotes by Michael Hayden

In terms of preparation, if there's some historical context that's needed, I do like to read a lot. Working on Joe Kennedy for 'Boardwalk,' I read a couple of biographies on him. It's nice to have a broader context of...

Quotes by Matt Letscher

The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.

Quotes by Mary Roach

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

Quotes by Mary Stuart Masterson

Another thread reassures that youthful worry fades with time, and that life tends to open up rather than close in. Continue with Look quotes or Me quotes.