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• The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, Eye, Old Things

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.98, e-artnow

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• My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.

  Yann Martel

  Book, Eye, Long

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Peace, Eye, Perspective

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1998). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings”

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• I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth’s magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

  Edward Mills Purcell

  Eye, Winter, Science

  "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1952.

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• So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love.

  Conor Oberst

  Lying, Eye, Deceit

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• He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. This is wrong, he thought. Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.

  Margaret Haddix

  Sweet, Eye, Smell

  "Among the Enemy".

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• I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.

  Edward Mills Purcell

  Eye, Winter, Years

  "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, Decemebr 11, 1952.

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• I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Eye, Light

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby from his basket. She twirls him in the air, her skirts flying around her ankles the way the clouds swirl around the mountain cap--her laughter fresh and strange and musical to my ears.

  Patricia McCormick

  Baby, Laughter, Eye

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• She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again. Eyes changed after they looked at new things. If in the years to be she were to come back, her new eyes might make everything seem different from the way she saw it now. The way it was now was the way she wanted to remember it.

  Betty Smith

  Eye, Years, Long

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• It is only in exceptional moods that we realize how wonderful are the commonest experiences of life. It seems to me sometimes that these experiences have an "inner" side, as well as the outer side we normally perceive. At such moments one suddenly sees everything with new eyes; one feels on the brink of some great revelation. It is as if we caught a glimpse of some incredibly beautiful world that lies silently about us all the time.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Life, Beautiful, Lying

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• People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are entire human beings, containing the whole of the evolving universe, limitless until we start limiting them. We must examine the concept of leading and following with new eyes. We must examine the concept of superior and subordinate with increasing skepticism. We must examine the concept of management and labor with new beliefs. And we must examine the nature of organizations that demand such distinctions with an entirely different consciousness.

  Dee Hock

  Eye, Organization, People

  Dee Hock, VISA International (1999). “Birth of the Chaordic Age”, p.73, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their place and some assurance of a subsistence diet. Born into slavery, they cannot easily redefine their lives outside the frame of enslavement.

  Kevin Bales

  Eye, Reality, World

  Kevin Bales (2005). “Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader”, p.4, Univ of California Press

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• The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Real, Eye, Mean

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• I guess I was always envious of people who got to move to New York for college because they got to see the city that I, perhaps, was pretty jaded by with new eyes and discover for themselves that Andy Warhol was dead.

  Lola Kirke

  New York, Moving, Eye

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• This mixture of Polish, not Polish, of being European, gives me a perspective to see Poland through "new eyes" - paradoxically, more closely... because it's from a kind of distance.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Distance, Eye, Perspective

  "Berlin Q&A: Director Malgorzata Szumowska". Interview with Kirill Galestski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Fall, Memorable

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• S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.

  Matthea Harvey

  Rain, Eye, Simple

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• Was it an accident that I saw Fiyero, I wondered, looking at the manager with new eyes, or is it just that world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?

  Gregory Maguire

  Eye, World, Saws

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• It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Eye, Looks, Great Gatsby Important

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.537, e-artnow

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• You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people, living, events present themselves to you with the immediacy of players in some barbarous and splendid drama that it seems we are part of. You have been given new eyes.

  Doris Lessing

  Drama, Taken, Eye

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• I could really appreciate him now - could properly see every beautiful line of his perfect face, of his long, flawless body with my strong new eyes, every angle and every plane of him. I could taste his pure, vivid scent on my tongue and feel the unbelievable silkiness of his marble skin under my sensitive fingertips.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, Strong, Eye

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• We take everything for granted, but when I'm with Angeline, I see the world through new eyes. She makes my world better. It's why she's so great.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, World, Granted

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.177, Penguin

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• The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you're ready, pick it up and read it, as if you've never read it before. If there are things you aren't satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that's revision.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Eye, Giving

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