Myopia famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.
-- Georg Cantor

#Mind #Myopia #Infinity
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Myopia #Fields #Bogs
Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Heart #Get Better #Myopia
Business is all about focus. But with focus comes myopia and to conquer that, I come in to shake things up. To be invited as a keynote speaker is to have a license to interfere and interrupt.
-- Magnus

#Focus #Myopia #Conquer

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.
Here I am.... You get the parts of me you like and also the parts that make you uncomfortable. You have to understand that other people's comfort is no longer my job. I am no longer a flight attendant.
He is someone who is involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a fundamental way. Let's start with who Dani Dayan is. He was the former head of one of the main settler councils, the Yesha Council, which is a kind of umbrella organization for settlements in the occupied West Bank. Now, you know, for some countries this might not be an issue, but Brazil has made a point of its policies on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
You know,â€ Cole said. â€œMy mom once told me a boy would know heâ€™d become a man when he stopped putting himself first. She said a girl would come along and I wouldnâ€™t be able to get her out of my mind. She said this girl would frustrate me, confuse me, and challenge me, but she would also make me do whatever was necessary to be a better manâ€“the man she needed. With you, I want to be better. I want to be what you need. Tell me what you need.
Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.
Justin Martyr says that he was impressed in his study of the Old Testament, at the seriousness and contents of these writings, and became convinced that Jesus fulfilled these texts.
Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.
His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.
I'm saying my rosary every day.
My only goal is to look back at the end of each year and see that I have improved.