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  • Broaden your vision, and maintain stability while advancing forward. That is my philosophy. -- Li Ka-shing
  • Broaden your horizons. They're the only ones you'll ever have, so make the suckers as wide as possible. -- Jennifer Crusie
  • Celebrate Life. Care for others and share whatever you have with those less fortunate than you. Broaden your vision, for the whole world belongs to you. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
  • Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze. -- David Harsanyi
  • Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. -- William Feather
  • Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
  • The Japan-U.S. alliance is an irreplaceable alliance. And I would like to further consolidate and broaden that alliance. -- Shinzo Abe
  • President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. -- William Westmoreland
  • Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • I feel traveling certainly does broaden the mind. In my case certainly I feel more confident. It gives you a new perspective on the world. -- Daniel Tammet
  • I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do. -- Martin Seligman
  • We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future. -- Martin Rees
  • The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view. -- Paul Farmer
  • Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children. -- Michael Gove
  • As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past. -- Timothy Geithner
  • One of my favorite luxuries in life is travel. Jet lag and lost baggage aside, it's an incredible way to learn about other cultures, meet new people, broaden your horizons... and do some amazing shopping! -- Amanda Hearst
  • Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region. -- Frank Carlucci
  • Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever. -- Jon Scieszka
  • There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek. -- John R. Allen
  • Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can. -- Orison Swett Marden
  • My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That helped broaden my palate generally, but I know it informed my distaste for factory farms and unspectacular commercial meat. -- Steve Albini
  • I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. -- Frank B. Kellogg
  • You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. -- Ethel Barrymore
  • If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast. -- Aimee Mullins
  • 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
  • In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order. -- Jonathan Sacks
  • My attempt is to try to broaden the base of the Republican Party, to try to bring in people that can agree and that can disagree on that, because I think the issues that we face about terrorism, about our economy, about the growth of our economy are so important that we have to have the biggest outreach possible. -- Rudy Giuliani
  • Whenever I'm trying to decide how to spend my precious time, energy, or money, I ask myself a series of questions. 'Will this broaden or deepen my relationships?' 'Will this contribute to an atmosphere of growth in my life?' 'Is this a way to 'Be Gretchen?' and 'Will this help connect me to my past?' -- Gretchen Rubin
  • I need to broaden my horizons. -- Trevor Dunn
  • Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind. -- Bruce Chatwin
  • Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds. -- Lord Chesterfield
  • Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us. -- Robert Redford
  • When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself. -- Bette Midler
  • Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself. -- Shannon L. Alder
  • View life through a wide angle lens attitude and see your horizons broaden. -- Stephen Richards
  • Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars? -- Marie Phillips
  • You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. -- Ethel Barrymore
  • Education should serve to enlarge the vision and broaden the outlook of the people. -- Sai Baba
  • Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives. -- Napoleon Hill
  • It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church. -- Pope Francis
  • The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia. -- Frank Carlucci
  • I started just naturally turning into a nicer person, and it actually helped broaden and lengthen my career. -- Kurt Fuller
  • Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their overheads through e-commerce platforms. -- Hamadoun Toure
  • The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
  • It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright. -- Carson McCullers
  • I hope you don't listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern. -- Barack Obama
  • The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find. -- Bruce Springsteen
  • Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them. -- John C. Maxwell
  • Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things. -- Mason Cooley
  • When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world. -- Colin Powell
  • Each song [Desaparecidos] has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people. -- Conor Oberst
  • Deepen and broaden your awareness of yourself and all the blessings will flow. You need not seek anything, all will come to you most naturally and effortlessly. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
  • It is vital that government leaders and financial leaders take heed and broaden their horizons, working to ensure that all citizens have dignified work, education, and healthcare. -- Pope Francis
  • No! Wait! I've got a better idea...""Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence, Sergeant Schlock.""And your point is...""Let's broaden the definition of 'necessary'. -- Howard Tayler
  • Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector. -- Kerry Stokes
  • If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone. -- Jack Kingston
  • Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden. -- Ralph Marston
  • [I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition! -- Oliver D. Crisp
  • Wherever you see a wall, demolish it to broaden the horizons of the world! Wherever you see a tyrant, take him down to increase the light of the world! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation. -- Henry Petroski
  • The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming. -- Chris Albrecht
  • One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do. -- Lauren Oliver
  • The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken. -- Ron Fournier
  • I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse. -- Rufus Wainwright
  • By accepting our aging and letting its lessons broaden us internally, we become calmer in the face of the body's inevitable deterioration. Becoming less attached to our outer appearance is so liberating. -- Wendy Lustbader
  • I have very young looks, so it's easy for me to play high school, but I'm trying to stay away from high-school movies. As I get older, I'll try and broaden my talents. -- Christopher Mintz-Plasse
  • Patience is not a natural gift of a leader, it is a learned one. The more you broaden your awareness, understanding, and compassion, the better results you will get out of your people. -- -Shandel Slaten
  • The Republican Party just isn't held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of the party. We have to go back to that. -- Charles H. Percy
  • The bottom line is that red carpet helps us broaden the appeal of the brand. Calvin Klein used to be about a very specific woman, but we've dressed so many different women at awards. -- Francisco Costa
  • I think the goal is in general to broaden my fans' perspectives and their horizons. Not to be cliché. But to introduce them to things that they may not have introduced to themselves. -- Miguel
  • Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction or non-fiction) and how books have allowed us to broaden our vocabulary. -- Tom Robinson
  • I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere. -- Djimon Hounsou
  • We have to broaden our appeal to more customers than simply high-end customers. We have to understand that, in the aggregate, there are fewer customers out there, so we have to appeal to them all, -- Glenn Tilton
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