Eyes Wide Open Quotes

• The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

  St. Jerome

  Cute, Love You, Heart

  "Saint Jerome Collection [5 Books]". Book by Saint Jerome, Aeterna Press, Letter LIV, 2016.

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• And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.

  Kiersten White

  Love, Romantic, Reality

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• Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Coward, Ears

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 24, 2017

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• Keep your eyes wide open in the darkest of times. Only then you can rely on shooting stars.

  Lincoln Hall

  Wisdom, Stars, Eye

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• Because you're mine, I walk the line.

  Johnny Cash

  Country, Song, Lines

  Song: I Walk The Line

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• I keep my eyes wide open all the time.

  Johnny Cash

  Eye, Wide

  "Song: "I Walk the Line" ("Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar")". 1957.

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• I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.

  Tony Arata

  Dream, Eye, Wide

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• Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.

  David Liss

  Mistake, Eye, Sometimes

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• I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.

  L. Frank Baum

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 4: Rinkitink in Oz; The Lost Princess of Oz; The Tin Woodman of Oz”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.

  Ryan Adams

  Book, Writing, Heart

  Ryan Adams (2009). “Infinity Blues”, p.13, Akashic Books

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• I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.

  Kiersten White

  Love, Believe, Fall

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• To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work hanging in fine museums or the praise of critics . . . To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open, to breathe in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark . . . To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share.

  Jan Phillips

  Beautiful, Eye, Artist

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• My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

  Antonio Machado

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

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• There is a difference between running with all your heart with your eyes closed and running with all your heart with your eyes wide open.

  Simon Sinek

  Running, Eye, Heart

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.157, Penguin

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• More than just a moral issue, hope is a spiritual and even religious choice.  Hope is not a feeling; it is a decision.  And the decision for hope is based on what you believe at the deepest levels - what your most basic convictions are about the world and what the future holds - all based on your faith.  You choose hope, not as a naive wish, but as a choice, with your eyes wide open to the reality of the world - just like the cynics who have not made the decision for hope.

  Jim Wallis

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

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• I keep my eyes wide open. Because trouble is out there.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Eye, Nfl, Trouble

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• I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you - yes, you - have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Running, Passion, Ambition

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• There are two ways in which we may attain control over our activity. The first is confidence in the power of our own will; to know that if we have failed today, tomorrow we will not do so. The second is to have our eyes wide open, and to watch keenly our activity in all aspects of life. It is in the dark that we fall, but in the light we can see where we are going.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Fall, Eye, Dark

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• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

  James Dobson

  Love, Marriage, Eye

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• Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.

  Georges Rouault

  Eye, Pagan, Wide

  "Rouault". Book by Lionello Venturi, 1947.

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• The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Eye, Men

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”

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• We go in with eyes wide open and recognize there will be a lot of hard work involved. But we anticipate having success. We feel like we have assembled a great group of people. If we were going to do it any other way, we would have made an announcement a long time ago. We were very diligent.

  Troy Aikman

  Hard Work, Eye, Long

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• The bad things you can see with one eye closed. But keep both eyes wide open for the little things. Little things mark the great dividing line between success and failure.

  Jacob Braude

  Eye, Lines, Littles

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• I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse. Our record indicates that we can walk with our eyes wide open straight into sheer destruction if there is a profit on the way-and that seems to me to be what we are doing now. I have no great expectation that human cussedness will somehow be quickly modified and turned into generosity or that humanity's care of the earth will improve much. But I do go around planting trees on the campus.

  Joseph Sittler

  Believe, Eye, Generosity

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• Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

  L. Frank Baum

  Dream, Children, Believe

  "The Lost Princess of Oz". Book by L. Frank Baum, 1917.

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