Myopic Quotes
26 quotes by 25 authors
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Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to…
— Milton Friedman
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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…
— Julie Taymor
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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,…
— Taylor Kitsch
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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…
— James Marsters
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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…
— Joan Cusack
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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…
— Joe Klein
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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
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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…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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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…
— Douglass North
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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…
— Diego Rivera
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I think people tend to be very myopic and they dont understand how their actions impact others.
— Jen Lancaster
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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…
— Daniel H. Pink
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With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted,…
— Stephen Lang
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How myopic it is to view His ministry as all crucifixion and no resurrection!
— Neal A. Maxwell
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I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.
— Kitty Carlisle
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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
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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…
— Rick Perry
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Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.
— David Mitchell
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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…
— Shane Claiborne
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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
Who Wrote These Myopic Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 26 Myopic Quotes as follows: