Top 38 Blinders On Quotes
#1. Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
Meryl Streep
#2. When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.
Mark Waters
#3. You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
George Lucas
#4. No emphaty when you had blinders on.
Toba Beta
#5. I put the blinders on and just work as hard as I can, and hopefully I'll just continue to be a better player.
Dustin Pedroia
#6. The successful people seem to have blinders on. Everything is straight ahead. They go forward and know exactly what they're going to do once they've made up their mind to do it, and by God they don't look sideways.
Jack Nicklaus
#7. That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing are all calibrated for the enjoyment of a perfect world. But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses.
Rohinton Mistry
#8. Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
Betsey Johnson
#9. I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.
Bill Parcells
#10. We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.
Libba Bray
#12. I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget that life has many flavors to savor.
Dave Smalley
#13. There's a photographer who says cat lovers always believe their own cat is better looking than anyone else's. According to her, they've all got blinders on.
Takashi Hiraide
#14. When starting a new business, people get blinders on. They have an idea, they stick to the idea, but they don't test it or check with their potential audience to see if this is a good idea. It happens all the time. Talk to your customers, see what they like and what you can change or not change.
JJ Ramberg
#15. All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.
Lou Holtz
#16. I couldn't even see that woman because I have blinders on when you are around, and every single thought in my head is about you.
Carolyn Brown
#17. A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
Robert Frost
#18. When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Maybe that was a good thing in the beginning. I had blinders on, and I charged forward.
Lesli Linka Glatter
#19. I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.
Alyssa Milano
#20. Family," she whispered. "So many people go through their lives with blinders on. They become self-involved and only want to think about their wants and their desires. They don't leave room for anything else, and then, too late, they realize how important their families were.
Julie Garwood
#21. We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
Victoria Moran
#22. When things are going awry, it's time to put the blinders on and do your job. Just do your job. Don't worry about the other guy, don't worry about the wins and losses, just worry about what the very next play is.
John Riggins
#23. Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#24. My life is parallel to a horse race. They have blinders on to keep them from being distracted in the race and keep them focused on winning the race. That's kind of like my life. Focus on the goal, not the things coming at me from the side.
Reggie Bush
#25. When you turn guesses into plans, you enter a danger zone. Plans let the past drive the future. They put blinders on you. "This is where we're going because, well, that's where we said we were going." And that's the problem: Plans are inconsistent with improvisation.
Jason Fried
#26. I want to see the whole picture - as nearly as I can. I don't want to put on the blinders of 'good' and 'bad', and limit my vision. If I used the term 'good' on a thing I'd lose my license to inspect it, because there might be bad in it. Don't you see? I want to be able to look at the whole thing.
John Steinbeck
#27. But Tess always wondered - maybe people were better off with the watered-down version of life, life with blinders, filters, cars that ran and buildings that went up on time, simple, stupid, mindless jobs. Maybe they were happy.
Jennifer McMahon
#28. I didn't really give a sh** what's going on in the rest of the world. I just didn't. I just wanted to focus on me, me, me, my career, my life, just me - blinders.
Madonna Ciccone
#29. Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.
Jason Alexander
#30. If you've ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you'll understand that the underlying theme of everything I've done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.
Tyler Perry
#31. I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.
Diane Ackerman
#32. It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
Dan Brown
#33. You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing blinders. If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself.
Gwynne Shotwell
#34. Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.
Bill Shuster
#35. A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: 'Run your own race, put on your blinders.'
Joan Rivers
#36. We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.
Norman Cousins
#37. The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.
Rick Bass
#38. All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.
Lucas Till
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