"When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view"

-- Colin Wilson

#Eye Quotes #Views Quotes #Focus Quotes

“Oh, my bad ... I'm sorry for bothering you. I forgot I only exist when you need me for something.”
“Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.”
“No matter how many good deeds we preform, they arenâ€™t the ticket to earning Godâ€™s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.”

Source : Bill Courtney (2014). “Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love”, p.187, Weinstein Publishing
“Basically painting is total idiocy.”
“How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.”
“A person all wrapped up in themselves makes for a mighty small package.”
“What do people want? Well, you really can’t talk about wants until you talk about needs.”
“A neighbor will stand at your door talking for 20 minutes because she doesn't have time to come in.”

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