Most Eye Opening Quotes

#1. The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly, deeply hold, proved to be wrong because that is the most eye-opening experience you can have, and as a scientist, to me, is the most exciting experience I can ever have.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#2. I had no idea what it would be like to be a bomb tech in Baghdad until I got there so I didn't know what to expect. It was very eye-opening.

Mark Boal

#3. For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Gregg's bakers, though, I'll say that. The opening of the 1977 'Star Wars' movie was possibly the only time I've seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener.

Darren Boyd

#4. Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world.

Charles Dickens

#5. No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

Herbert Spencer

#6. Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Jensen Ackles

#7. If no deliberate plan existed to put the Lusitania in danger, one is left with an unforgivable cock-up as an explanation.

Erik Larson

#8. The experience of being a young, blonde, naive but well-intentioned young producer was both intimidating and eye-opening.

Clarissa Ward

#9. The results of these and other studies were eye-opening. The children who exhibited delayed gratification scored higher on almost every measure of success in life: higher-paying jobs, lower rates of drug addiction, higher test scores, higher educational attainment, better social integration, etc.

Michio Kaku

#10. I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I could always take a nap in any situation by just looking at some opening variation - my eyes would shut right away.

Pal Benko

#11. For young women and men who had never seen blatant misogyny before, who had never heard a woman called a "cunt" or seen the size of a senator's thighs referred to on a T-shirt, these in-your-face examples of gender-based resistance to Hillary were eye-opening.

Rebecca Traister

#12. [I] had very high hopes for Israel and it's lived up to and surpassed what I had in mind ... I've had such an eye-opening experience - a really nice glimpse into the culture and lives of Israelis and the Jewish people.

Omar Benson Miller

#13. In fact he enables us not by making us supernaturally strong, but by opening our eyes. The Holy Spirit is that power which opens eyes that are closed, hearts that are unaware and minds that shrink from too much reality.

John Taylor

#14. It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.

Hosea Ballou

#15. Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.

Thomas Piketty

#16. We must reject the artificial and embrace what is real and true: truth in food, community, relationships and self.

Bryant McGill

#17. When you see yourself in a shattered mirror, don't think of it as the broken pieces of yourself. Think of it as all of the pieces that make up you.

Blaque Diamond

#18. Tonight was definitely an eye opener, but a reminder of how I use to be & why. Self discovery happens at such random times.

April Mae Monterrosa

#19. I had an eye-opening experience in Baghdad at the end of 2004 and I thought that the story of these guys who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world would be an interesting way to look at the war in a broader sense.

Mark Boal

#20. I don't find most people to be as politically engaged as I am. I do find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words, and who want to learn more about what's going on. I do find people with a lot of opinions. And I get a lot of people who come up to me and give us props for what we do.

Serj Tankian

#21. We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make
and the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.

Ken Robinson

#22. A great Awakening has begun. People around the world are opening their eyes to their own spiritual natures. They are beginning to see who they truly are and what they have always been-beings with an eternal past and a glorious future.

Betty Eadie

#23. To have a functioning body and not to use it is like having 20/20 vision and never opening your eyes.

Bill Phillips

#24. Most inherent beauties are hidden, as are precious stones in the rocks

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#25. I think that when you have somebody who really is kind of forced to see the world through someone else's eyes, I think it really is eye opening.

Morgan Spurlock

#26. 'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting class. So as Burt Reynolds continued to bring me back for the next three years, I learned so much from him and all the other legends that were on the show.

David A.R. White

#27. Then, we realize that the degraded cocoon we have been hiding in is revolting, and we want to turn up the lights as far as we can. In fact, we are not turning up the lights, but we are simply opening our eyes wider. We catch a certain kind of fever.

Chogyam Trungpa

#28. Success is mesmerizing, and blinding. Sometimes you need good old fashion failure to open your eyes.

Noel DeJesus

#29. Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

Richard Carlson

#30. Well. This has been erotic. Enlightening. Gods, this is enlightening. Like eye-opening. Nothing else!

T.J. Klune

#31. I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

Magnus Carlsen

#32. The experience of learning how to Relabel, Reframe, Refocus, and Revalue was eye-opening for them because it allowed them to see that their time could be better spent on other pursuits and in healthier ways.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#33. Sometimes, opening up your eyes and realising what you have - no matter how little you think - helps you find yourself.

Hillary Clinton

#34. I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

Rachel Boston

#35. Spirituality is about developing the inner sights by opening the third eye and the eyes of the heart.

Amit Ray

#36. The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

John Maeda

#37. To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

James Hillman

#38. I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.

Lane Garrison

#39. This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

Vince Gill

#40. I still think of Columbia as one Rita Hayworth movie a year, or maybe one a year directed by Frank Capra in the '30s. To see how many really outstanding movies Columbia made, and all together, is kind of eye-opening.

Robert Osborne