I was trouble - and always in trouble. Aged eight I still couldn't read. In fact, I was dyslexic and short-sighted. Despite… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“The mark of a short-sighted goal is that it is solely designed to achieve whatever needs to be achieved as a means… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off. — Jenny Eclair Copy Share Image
Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments. — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
I am not surprised that men who put their trust in an atom should fail in their slightest attempts to plumb truth,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men. — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. — Liam Fox Copy Share Image
If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy! — Edwin Drake Copy Share Image
Get enough exercise and sleep: Sounds trivial, but it's not. You may have the urge to work 24/7, to skip the gym… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
