Seeing Things Quotes
78 quotes by 73 authors
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
— Josh Billings
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Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a…
— Tim Burton
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It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old…
— Peter Cundall
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Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team's all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the…
— Jack Ma
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We have names for everything. What if we forgot about those names? And we stopped seeing things as something? What if we just observed things,…
— Robert Adams
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Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.
— Philip Larkin
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My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things…
— Wynn Bullock
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Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing "things as they…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands…
— Daniel J. Sullivan
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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
— Robert Greene
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The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be true, even though it cannot…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing…
— Lionel Tiger
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To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is all very simple.…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
— Ai Weiwei
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A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.
— Kim Edwards
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I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the…
— Norman O. Brown
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It turns out we're very good at not seeing things
— Jack Hitt
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For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least,…
— Matthieu Ricard
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I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
— Harriet Martineau
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