Quotes of: Tunnel-vision Keyword

Can we only speak when we are fully living what we are saying? If all our words had to cover all our actions, we would be doomed to permanent silence! Sometimes we are called to proclaim God’s love even when we are not yet fully able to live it. Do...

Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith

Can writing ever be taught? The best answer to that was given obliquely by the rock musician David Lee Roth. When asked if money could buy happiness he said, no, but with money you could buy the big boat and go right up to where the people were happy...

Ron Carlson Writes a Story

She had come to that state where the horror of the universe and its smallness are both visible at the same time—the twilight of the double vision in which so many elderly people are involved. If this world is not to our taste, well, at all events, ...

A Passage to India

The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life. Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the Solar System and beyond, will be unified by...

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident...

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Consider again that dot [Earth]. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of ...

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

The well from which we draw our love to give to other people, should never be only as deep as the well wherein resides the love we have already received in our lives. The cycle must be broken. The former well must be abandoned and we must create a lo...

C. JoyBell C.

If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or vision based on cowardice, straightforwardness ...

Chogyam Trungpa

H.I.: That night, I had a dream. I drifted off thinking about happiness, birth and new life, But now I was haunted by a vision of... He was horrible. The lone biker of apocalypse. A man with all the powers of Hell at his command. He could turn turn t...

Raising Arizona

Yoda: Premonitions, premonitions. These visions you have... Anakin Skywalker: They are of pain, suffering. Death. Yoda: Yourself you speak of, or someone you know? Anakin Skywalker: Someone. Yoda: Close to you? Anakin Skywalker: Yes. Yoda: Careful yo...

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision.

The Cold War

Sighing, he settled into his chair, watching the vision of space at his front. It was stoic, calm, and never ending—deadly, if you weren't careful.

Demon Possession

A great leader has brains, vision, guts, values ... and a heart.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.

Essential Lentz: Collected Literary Works

It was as if the blinders to his vision had been lifted and he wanted to make up for every moment the two of them had missed.

Finding Eden

There are two types of visions. Those that will happen no matter what, and those that can be stopped. Now more than ever, I wish I could tell them apart.

Farsighted

Kids, don’t trust any radical under twenty-five. His cock tends to get in the way of his political vision

The Garbageman

Dream high, beyond the sky; no matter wings so small, keep vision bright; just dare to learn, for you are born to fly.

GWG

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

The leader acknowledges and eradicates the weeds in the garden, but keeps vision on the beauty they are creating and not on the weeds they are destroying

Breakout Presentations: Wow! People in Business and Life

Sunrise, sunset, changes right before my eyes, but your vision stays forever in my heart

Bellamore A Beautiful Love To Remember