Mental Blindness Quotes

#1. Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.

Ann Voskamp

#2. Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success

Donald Clark

#3. KEVIN: And now a word from our sponsors. Lauren?
LAUREN: Thank, Kev. Can I call you Kev?
KEVIN: Haha. No Lauren, by no means.

Joseph Fink

#4. Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage.

Dave DeBronkart

#5. Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.

Otto Weininger

#6. I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Will Hobbs

#7. I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children, without protesting, at least in my own mind, against the blindness and cruelty of their parents or guardians or whoever has care of them.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#8. I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.

Joyce Carol Oates

#9. Ideologies are mental prisons that produce blindness.

Fernando Araya

#10. A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.

Garry Kasparov

#11. Medical men have searched the world for remedies, desiring an antidote. Chiropractors find the cause in the person ailing.

B. J. Palmer

#12. A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

Aldous Huxley

#13. About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell ... I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last.

Lev Grossman

#14. I think we've been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less.

Greg McKeown

#15. There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

Jerry Seinfeld

#16. Sir Storm, I have decided that you are a god of poetic justice."
Baka to Storm

Victoria Danann

#17. You do know I'm not psychic, right?'
Dash looked down at her. 'Joy...you do know that normal people don't see ghosts, right?

Amy Andrews

#18. One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory of diseases, including autism, blindness, mental retardation and heart, liver and kidney disease.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.