From Seeing Quotes

#1. Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.

Russell Simmons

#2. You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

Arthur Cohn

#3. Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#4. And at this point, do you think a give a fuck anymore? I looked out for me and only me for years, and then you came along. You made me feel things. And when I laid here after I came back from seeing you beat up and broken because of me, I stopped caring what happens to me.

Emily Snow

#5. Here's how to create an inspired vision for your life: Change the scope of your thinking from seeing is believing to believing is seeing.

DeWayne Owens

#6. When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#7. It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

Lincoln Steffens

#8. To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

Oscar Wilde

#9. Don't even try to stop me from seeing her, Krychek," he said to the cardinal, who still hadn't spilled Silver 's location. "I'm bigger and meaner than you."

Krychek raised an eyebrow. "Bigger, yes. Meaner? Let's leave that an open question.

Nalini Singh

#10. To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#11. Sighing, she looked out at the fog. It was like life, preventing her from seeing what was beyond reach. She wasn't unhappy. She simply felt that something important was missing from her life

Lorraine Heath

#12. That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.

Irvine Welsh

#13. I often think my boyfriend is going to leave me just from seeing how I talk to the dog. But you know, when you are talking to your dog, you are accessing this softer side of you. Everything else melts away.

Natasha Lyonne

#14. Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.

Steve Pavlina

#15. My grandmother, a dim, stern figure, named her children Lily and Violet, which I guess from seeing a picture of my mother's paved, ugly backyard, was the nearest she came to a garden.

Emma Joy Crone

#16. Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

Oscar Wilde

#17. News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.

Maria Bartiromo

#18. No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.

Veronica Roth

#19. You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.

Wallace D. Wattles

#20. The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.

Peter Senge

#21. Timeless awareness occurs to very few in this world, to step beyond the circle of fear. The body has created a magnificent arena of fear. We have developed ways of seeing life that exclude us from seeing life.

Frederick Lenz

#22. Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.

Douglas Adams

#23. Seriously, why was it tradition to stand when the bride came in? It blocked her from seeing her groom, who was the only reason she was there in the first place.

K.R. Grace

#24. Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

Rob Lowe

#25. I am not an advocate of Enlightenment. On the contrary, I see it as a form of light pollution, which prevents us from seeing the stars.

Roger Scruton

#26. Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications like "optics" or "thermodynamics" are just straitjackets, preventing physicists from seeing countless intersections.

Ted Chiang

#27. The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#28. Let's go now." He extended his hand to help me get up. I grabbed it and, turning on my side facing the wall away from him to prevent him from seeing me, I asked, "Must we?" This was the closest I would ever come to saying, Stay. Just stay with me.

Andre Aciman

#29. Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

Naomi Klein

#30. It's just hard to go from seeing elephants living their lives in the wild and not being bothered by humans, to seeing them put in a bunker every night and then being forced to take assholes like us on rides.

Chelsea Handler

#31. The real question is whether the brighter future is really always so distant. What if, on the contrary, it has been here for a long time already, and only our own blindness and weakness has prevented us from seeing it around us and within us, and kept us from developing it?

Nick Gillespie

#32. Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.

Gautama Buddha

#33. The inherent prejudice in unnaturally-produced nationalism causes a form of cultural blindness, which prevents us from seeing the obvious ways we could co-exist in the world as a co-operative human family.

Bryant McGill

#34. Claritypoint: A fear-based philosophy about life (seeing life as a testing center) can prevent you from seeing yourself and situations accurately.- A fear of failing skews your perspective and distracts you from learning and loving.

Kimberly Giles

#35. Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.

Fred F. Fielding

#36. If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.

Jeannette Walls

#37. We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

Eric Hoffer

#38. In my whole life, I've never vomited from seeing something disgusting. Does it really even happen, outside of movies and TV? I believe it may be a myth.

Mary Roach

#39. Being attached is what prevents us from seeing, it is what clouds this miraculous awareness.

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

#40. Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.

Thomas Hobbes

#41. True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Jean Cocteau

#42. The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

Christina Stead

#43. Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#44. It is exactly our sense of haste and impatience that impedes us from seeing the true beauty life has to offer.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#45. The struggle against an obstacle inevitably propels the fighter to a new level of functioning. The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this.

Ryan Holiday

#46. If you stare long enough at anything, you will start to find similarities. The word "coincidence" exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists.

Chuck Klosterman

#47. With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.

Frederick Buechner

#48. My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

Harriet Martineau

#49. Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

Jack Canfield

#50. Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.

Thomas Leonard

#51. Focusing on other people's flaws will distract you from seeing your own.

Habeeb Akande

#52. I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.

Louis Zamperini

#53. Misery If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.

Mark Nepo

#54. Happiness in God comes from seeing God revealed to us in the face of Jesus Christ through the Scriptures. Mueller

John Piper

#55. I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple's tell-tale white earbuds. But I'm constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?

Jonathan Ive

#56. My overflowing leisure handed me the world and at the same time prevented me from seeing it. Just as the sun, filtering through the closed venetian blinds on a hot afternoon, makes the whole magnificence of summer blaze in my mind; whereas if I face its direct harsh glare it blinds me.

Simone De Beauvoir

#57. Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#58. I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.

Larry Niven

#59. Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help.

Steven Levenkron

#60. Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where it's coming from as it moves swiftly towards you.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#61. If you are a reader, you are already halfway to being a writer," she says. "For you have a love of words and pleasure from seeing them on a page. And if you are a writer, then you will find that you are driven to write. It is a gift that demands to be shared. You cannot be a silent singer.

Philippa Gregory

#62. If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

Rabindranath Tagore

#63. 'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.

Meg Wolitzer

#64. Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is.

Chris Matakas

#65. My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked - just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated humor.

Shia Labeouf

#66. Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.

Frederick Lenz

#67. Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#68. Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

Jeffrey Jones

#69. The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.

Frederick Lenz

#70. Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

Douglas Adams

#71. Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

Oswald Chambers

#72. The fear of not having enough prevents many from seeing that they already are enough.

Wayne Dyer

#73. If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

Peter Drucker

#74. Staring too long at the light of another will blind us from seeing our own.

Charles F. Glassman

#75. The dark and the light, they exist side by side,
Sometimes overlapping, one explaining the other.
The darkened path is as illuminated as the lightened,
Only the fear of the dark keeps us from seeing our way.

Raven Davies

#76. Help me to understand, what my grief has prevented me from seeing - within.

Eleesha

#77. A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#78. I turn back to them, trying to maintain control of my emotions, trying to keep the two of them from seeing that I'm shaking in sorrow and anger and hurt.

Jackson Pearce

#79. To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

Eric Hoffer

#80. Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

Ayn Rand

#81. People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

Laura Prepon

#82. When there is a problem, always identify and evaluate your underlying assumptions that may be contributing to the problem or preventing you from seeing the problem clearly.

Elizabeth Thornton

#83. I'd already tasted her, and nothing would have stopped me from seeing her virgin blood coat my cock as I pumped in and out of her, filled her with my cum until it dripped down her ass and covered my sheets - sheets I stripped from my bed afterwards and kept.

Alexa Riley

#84. In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is. In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane

Anonymous

#85. Do not allow the adumbrations of Aristotelian logic to prevent you from seeing a vast spectrum of truths; the post-Boolean continuum of shades of grey where we spend most of our lives.

Bryant McGill

#86. A profound theme is of trifling importance if the characters knocked around by it are uninteresting, and brilliant technique is a nuisance if it pointlessly prevents us from seeing the characters and what they do.

John Gardner

#87. Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Wayne W. Dyer

#88. The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#89. Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone's life.

Shannon L. Alder

#90. Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.

Nachman Of Breslov

#91. The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless.

Timothy Keller

#92. Resentment, bitterness, and holding a grudge prevent us from seeing and hearing and tasting and delighting.

Pema Chodron

#93. Often what prevents us from seeing beauty in the outside world is the fact that we fail to see beauty in ourselves and other people. Forgiveness is the key that can unlock this door for us.

Anthony J. Ciorra

#94. There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom.

Carole Katchen

#95. Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Frank Moore Colby

#96. When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love.

Sharon Salzberg

#97. People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.

Gillian Flynn

#98. Everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. Concealed sin keeps us from seeing the light of Christ.

John Piper

#99. Retaining our capacity for reason
is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

H.E. Davey

#100. God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.

Alexander Pushkin