Myopic Quotes

• Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

  Julie Taymor

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.

  Rick Perry

  Gun, Law, Evil

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• We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Thinking, Logic, Term

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• 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, Grades

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• I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

  Kitty Carlisle

  Glasses, Eyeglasses, Born

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• The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

  Amy Lowell

  Genius, World, Oddness

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.

  Joan Cusack

  Mean, Impact, Parent

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• I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.

  Maya Soetoro-Ng

  Believe, Order, Needs

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• 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, Carpet, Repeating History

  "In the Footsteps of Achebe: Enter Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". Interview with Ike Anya, www.africanwriter.com. October 15, 2005.

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• A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Organization, People

  "'Drive' Not Always Explained By Rewards". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 4, 2010.

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• There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate when combined with a rather abstract view of a language as a set of elements and rules for combining these. For the result is to divorce enquiry into meaning from attention to the way words - and gestures, facial expressions, rituals and so on - are embedded in practices, in what Wittgenstein called 'the stream of life'.

  David E. Cooper

  Divorce, Expression, Practice

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

  Joe Klein

  Humility, Compassion, Cynical

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• How myopic it is to view His ministry as all crucifixion and no resurrection!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Views, Ministry, Resurrection

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• I think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements from all around it and not to maintain this kind of rigid myopic kind of tunnel vision, in a sense, trying to maintain a certain kind of purity, or whatever.

  David Sanborn

  Thinking, Tunnels, Creative

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• People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being. I remember reading some Adrienne Rich quote where she talks about how important it was just to watch bubbles rise in a glass.

  Karen Russell

  Dream, Reading, Glasses

  "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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• 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, Kitsch

  "No Way But Up". Interview with Ari Karpel, www.menshealth.com. March 2, 2012.

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• We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Church, Culture, Analyzing

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• 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, Benefits

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• I actually think being an entrepreneur is a state of mind. If you're going to be an entrepreneur, my thesis is that you have to sacrifice everything for some period in your life to be successful. You have to be myopic and completely focused and unbalanced in every way. Once you've achieved success, you're free to do whatever you like.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Successful, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Interview with Colin Campbell, www.macleans.ca. October 5, 2011.

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• Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.

  Shane Claiborne

  Country, People, Vision

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.154, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what the Lord calls coveting "the drop," while neglecting the "more weighty matters." (D&C 117:8) Myopic selfishness magnifies a mess of pottage and makes thirty pieces of silver look like a treasure trove. In our intense acquisitiveness, we forget Him who once said, "What is property unto me?"

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Fighting, People, Selfishness

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• Myopia, in more than ninety-five percent of cases, begins between five and ten years of age. It increases largely because the myopic eye is given a minus lens.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Eye, Years, Vision

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• 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, Avalanches, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of the history of freedom. It is a part that tends to be obscured or ignored because of the myopic vision of many economists, who persist in modeling government as nothing more than a gigantic form of theft and income redistribution.

  Douglass North

  Character, Government, Vision

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• I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.

  Diego Rivera

  Atheist, Good Friend, Order

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