Myopic famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.
-- Amy Lowell

#Myopic #Genius #World
I like smaller films better. I don't know why. I think it's the intimacy and there's not this avalanche. It is an avalanche, but it's really myopic. It's really small.
-- Channing Tatum

#Thinking #Myopic #Avalanches
We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#Risk #Myopic #Carpet
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
-- Jacques Yves Cousteau

#Thinking #Myopic #Logic
It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on
-- James Marsters

#Art #House #Myopic
I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.
-- Kitty Carlisle

#Glasses #Eyeglasses #Myopic
Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Giving #Doubt #Myopic
With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.
-- Stephen Lang

#Myopic #Stories #Television
I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
-- Taylor Kitsch

#People #Needs #Myopic

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.
Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.
I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.
Cancun is the only place I've ever visited outside America
Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.
When a player keeps a calm demeanor on the court, it's easier for his ability to shine. The best response to an opposing player's physical or psychological tactics is to keep cool and come right back at him with the force of your game, not your fists. Revenge is always sweeter if your team wins the game.
For the longest time, you couldnt even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.
But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.
For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.