Plain Sight Quotes

• It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.

  Gerard Way

  Sight, Abstract

  "My Chemical Romance 'Can Never Die,' Gerard Way Says" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 25, 2013.

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• The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.

  L. Neil Smith

  Successful, Light, Sight

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• Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sight, Sometimes, Hiding

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• There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

  Larry Dossey

  Sight, Ordinary, Treasure

  Larry Dossey (2007). “The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness”, p.1, Harmony

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• God is not merely at your fingertips but within your grasp. Live each day like a child digging through an antique treasure chest rifling for the next discovery. Open your arms and your eyes to the God who stands in plain sight and works miracles in your midst. Look for him in your workdays and weekends, in your meeting-filled Mondays and your lazy Saturdays. Search for him in the snowy sunsets and Sabbaths, seasons of Lent and sitting at your table. Pray for—and expect—wonder. For when you search for God, you will discover him.

  Margaret Feinberg

  Monday, Children, Sunset

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• This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist.

  Cennino Cennini

  Sight, Hands, Order

  Cennino Cennini (1954). “The Craftsman's Handbook”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

  James Geary

  Sight, Mind, Influence

  "Metaphors in Mind". The Macmillan Dictionary blog, www.macmillandictionaryblog.com. April 11, 2011.

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• The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.

  Richard Farson

  Leadership, Eye, Ideas

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• I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.

  Harry Markopolos

  Sight, Views, Cockroaches

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• There are rules for hiding in plain sight. The first rule, or at least the one that Sandor repeats most often, is “Don’t be stupid.” I’m about to break that rule by taking off my pants.

  Pittacus Lore

  Stupid, Sight, Often Is

  Pittacus Lore (2012). “I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Nine's Legacy”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight.

  Scott Adams

  Sight, Likes

  Scott Adams (2013). “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life”, p.16, Penguin

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• That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.

  Harlan Coben

  Sight, Play, Perception

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• There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

  Robin Sloan

  Sight, Knowing, Secret

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan

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• What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hero, Adversity, Light

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.

  Michael Lind

  Pain, Believe, Sight

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• The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: "This is water." "This is water." It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Simple, Sight

  "This Is Water". David Foster Wallace's commencement speech at Kenyon College, www.youtube.com. May 21, 2005.

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• The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.

  Alex Gibney

  Powerful, Sight, Church

  Source: collider.com

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• We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people, events, and things of the day - to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Lying, Color

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• The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight.

  Mike Lofgren

  Sight, Hiding, States

  "Essay: Anatomy of the Deep State". billmoyers.com. February 21, 2014.

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• What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

  Annie Dillard

  Lying, Color, Holiness

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• There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If you don't know any grandmasters, it's not because you haven't encountered them, but rather because their art is hidden in plain sight.

  Peter Thiel

  Art, Sight, Novices

  "Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future". Book by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters, September 18, 2014.

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• I don't like real places, but I don't like imagined ones either. I feel like I'm looking for some mixture and it's very hard for me to say because I like to use real place names because there's an uncanny feeling to them, but at the same time I don't ever really try to make them plausible. Sometimes I like to use them as a way to hide in plain sight a little bit, because to me a very exotic or imagined setting has a lot of weight and a lot of burden to it, and it doesn't suit me, but a real place seems to have its own weird legacy, so I don't know what the choice is?

  Ben Marcus

  Real, Choices, Feelings

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• What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.

  Charles Baxter

  Heart, Sight, Guy

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.140, Vintage

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• That's another one of Sandor's rules for hiding in plain sight: always appear to be weaker than I actually am. Never push it.

  Pittacus Lore

  Sight, Hiding In Plain Sight, Hiding

  Pittacus Lore (2012). “I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Nine's Legacy”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I loved being around live rocking music, but I never knew what to do with myself socially at a show or club. I discovered that the dance floor was the perfect place to hide in plain sight.

  Larry Howes

  Sight, Perfect, Clubs

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