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  • 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.

  • 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.

    Interview with Karla Huston, www.smartishpace.com. 2004.
  • Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries?

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

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

  • 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.

    Horse   Past   Games  
  • 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.

    Struggle   Men   Judging  
  • 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.

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

    Moving   Writing   Want  
    "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.
  • As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.

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

    Stars   Drug   Perimeter  
  • 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.

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

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

    Mark Dunn (2010). “Ella Minnow Pea”, p.49, MP Publishing
  • Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours," declared the Major.

    Rain   Perimeter   Majors  
    Garth Nix (2014). “Abhorsen: Book three in the internationally bestselling fantasy series”, p.125, Hot Key Books
  • The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

    Running   War   Japan  
  • 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.

    Order   America   People  
    Source: www.salon.com
  • The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater.

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

  • Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning an obsessive love, a state that's almost like a drug. Need like a wolf paces the perimeter of your world, back and forth, back and forth, never letting up. ...You're appalled by the new appetites within you, kicking their feet and clawing to get out.

  • You get some sleep, Abigail," Townsend told her. "I'll keep watch." "That's very gracious of you, but being that we're on an airplane..." Even after the plane took off, they kept debating security perimeters and protocols. I'm pretty sure they argued for forty-five minutes about where the best place for cappuccino was near the Colosseum.

    Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.107, Hachette UK
  • 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.

    Fall   Games   Balance  
    NBA’s media roundtable Interview, slamonlineph.com. January 6, 2015.
  • When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.

    Basketball   Jobs   Team  
  • Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissible to play, because their backyard fence plainly outlines the safe area. They learn about the invisible fence that surrounds the stove, and that Grandma has an invisible barrier around her cabinet of antique teacups.

    Children   Grandma   Play  
    Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.155, Celestial Arts
  • 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.

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

    Twitter post from Oct 24, 2012
  • 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.

    Wall   Party   Heart  
    FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Aug 08, 2013
  • From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.

  • ...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.

    Past   Drawing   Looks  
    David Brin (2011). “Kil'n People”, p.399, Hachette UK
  • I'm a perimeter player. I'm more like a Ray Allen.

    Player   Rays   Perimeter  
    Source: www.complex.com
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