Perimeter Quotes

• The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.

  Warren Buffett

  Circles, Important, Term

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• As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.

  Albert Einstein

  Light, Darkness, Doe

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• As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ignorance, Grows, Areas

  Twitter post from Oct 24, 2012

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• By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

  Eli Pariser

  Moving, Understanding, Attention

  Eli Pariser (2011). “The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think”, p.155, Penguin

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• The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater.

  Archimedes

  Earth, Greater

  Archimedes (2007). “The Works of Archimedes”, p.222, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and admire the qualities that would make men useful and dependable in an emergency. Men have always had a role apart, and they still judge one another according to the demands of that role as a guardian in a gang struggling for survival against encroaching doom. Everything that is specifically about being a man-not merely a person-has to do with that role.

  Jack Donovan

  Struggle, Men, Judging

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• Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.

  Amber Benson

  Regret, Law, Trying

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• The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view.

  Matt Ridley

  Running, Ignorance, Views

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• I think my mom gave me the borders, the - gave me a very clear understanding of what the perimeter was. And I had to find my fun within those boundaries.

  Mahershala Ali

  Mom, Fun, Thinking

  "In 'Moonlight,' Actor Mahershala Ali Found Characters He Recognized". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 16, 2017.

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• That's how we like to play basketball, is be physical down there in the paint and force teams to the perimeter.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Team, Play

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• Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours," declared the Major.

  Garth Nix

  Rain, Majors

  Garth Nix (2014). “Abhorsen: Book three in the internationally bestselling fantasy series”, p.125, Hot Key Books

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• Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart.

  Karen Russell

  Wall, Party, Heart

  FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Aug 08, 2013

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• Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate.

  Jim Morrison

  Stars, Drug, Immaculate

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• If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.

  Warren Buffett

  Circles, Competence, Wells

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• A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Territory, Matter

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• Any time you add something to your game, you still have to find ways to improve, so I'm still studying the game and trying to find out ways to increase how we use me on the floor. You're not being complacent, not falling back and floating around the perimeter too much, figuring out when to attack. I'm trying to find that balance between attacking and spotting up and things like that.

  Blake Griffin

  Fall, Games, Balance

  NBA’s media roundtable Interview, slamonlineph.com. January 6, 2015.

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• Don't be a victim. Be busy with your horse so you stay out of trouble - otherwise, trouble will come and find you”, Brannaman would say. “Be assertive but don't be aggressive, if you are aggressive you'll make the horse flighty. The horse needs perimeters like anyone else. Give them guidance, support, rules. The same rules. Don't change the game. Don't let them have excuses just cause of their past. And love them.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Past, Games

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• We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that's emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada. And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.

  Alan Bersin

  Order, America, People

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms.

  Denise Duhamel

  Believe, Reading, Writing

  Interview with Karla Huston, www.smartishpace.com. 2004.

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• I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move the perimeter of saying outside my own boundaries is one reason I write.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Moving, Writing, Want

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there is quite a racket going on. Choices have to be made with respect to every mark. Not every mistake should be erased. Nor shall the unintelligible be left out. Order is there to be wrenched from the tangles of words. Results are impossible to measure. A clearing is drawn around the perimeter as if by a stick with a nail on the end.

  C.D. Wright

  Mistake, Heart, Persistence

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• Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail.

  Mark Dunn

  Mail, Language, Love One Another

  Mark Dunn (2010). “Ella Minnow Pea”, p.49, MP Publishing

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• ...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.

  David Brin

  Past, Drawing, Looks

  David Brin (2011). “Kil'n People”, p.399, Hachette UK

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• I'm a perimeter player. I'm more like a Ray Allen.

  Malcolm Subban

  Player, Rays

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Lonely, Night, People

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.154, Macmillan

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