Kaui Hart Hemmings

In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.

American Writer

Barack Obama

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

American President

Holly Hunter

I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me.

American Actress

Susan Sarandon

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.

Taiye Selasi

When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

Ghanaian Writer

Eckhart Tolle

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

German Speaker

Newt Gingrich

If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.

American Politician

Famke Janssen

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

Dutch Actress

Sean M. Carroll

I think it's important that science just doesn't stay within narrow boundaries.

American Scientist

Faye Wattleton

I was raised in a very sheltered, narrow environment.

Sociologist

Relates to physical width, like paths or items you have to move through or around.

Physical Spaces

Used to create a vivid picture of small or confined spaces in writing.

Descriptive Imagery

Used when something becomes tighter or more confined gradually.

Change Over Time

Often used to express reducing the scope of something to be more specific.

Focus Reduction

Applies to thinking, suggesting limited variety in thoughts or experiences.

Not Just Geography

Can imply a person is not open to new ideas or opinions.

Lack of Openness

Indicates minimal success or just meeting a requirement.

Barely Sufficient

Can be used in sports or contests to describe a close win.

Intense Competition

Use when referring to the process of eliminating options.

Decision-Making

Refers to being exact or careful about the details under consideration.

Precision in Thought

 normal hares whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings telling the cat how far each one is being bent back and how quickly their whiskers are the same width as their body allowing cats to navigate the narrowest spaces

BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...

 allows them to withstand immense pressure. But they're the exception. Most deep-sea creatures are confined to a narrow range in the water column where nutrients are scarce since the food drifting downwards from the surface rapidly sinks to the sea floor.

The otherworldly...

 And in many of our own life decisions, we use information gained from past experience and our surroundings to narrow down our choices to the best options so that maybe next time, we can avoid eating that poisonous mushroom in the first place.

Can you solve the frog...

 It turns out that the crime rate goes up and down irrespective of how many young people we send to prison. We tend to think about justice in a pretty narrow good and bad, innocent and guilty. Injustice is about being wrongfully convicted.

Alice Goffman: How we're...

 and a lovely narrow little face and these lovely little ears. They're tapping into something deep rooted within us. We love our cats because they love us. They're everything to me. She's like the last jigsaw of our family.

Are These Cats Actually...

 the rising tide breaches their nursery creating a narrow inlet to the pool and an opportunity for the intelligent organ she is thought to be the first of her kind in the world to hunt seals in this

Orca's Extraordinary...

 narrow maze like toilet pipes is this even possible the underwater passage leaves no room for error add a turn the rat finds a pocket of air just enough to help it

See How Easily a Rat Can...

 release you set yourself free grudges bitterness resentment they're all burdens they narrow our options our relationships our experiences of life

What forgiveness can...

 The meat is positioned so deep in the narrow box, it's out of reach of the crow's beak.

Are Crows the Ultimate...

 oh dear big cheeks and narrow bottlenecks