Seeing Things Quotes

78 quotes by 73 authors

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. — Josh Billings
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
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
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
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
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are. — Philip Larkin
My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before. — Robert Mapplethorpe
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
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
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
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are. — Robert Greene
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
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
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
Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something. — Ai Weiwei
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
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
It turns out we're very good at not seeing things — Jack Hitt
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
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are. — Harriet Martineau

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