Top 42 Myopic Quotes
#1. People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being. I remember reading some Adrienne Rich quote where she talks about how important it was just to watch bubbles rise in a glass.
Karen Russell
#2. A myopic focus on the proposed psychopathology of perpetrators, or on their alleged extraordinary personalities, tells us more about our own personal dreams of how we wish the world to work than it does about the reality of perpetrator behavior.
James Waller
#3. I like smaller films better. I don't know why. I think it's the intimacy and there's not this avalanche. It is an avalanche, but it's really myopic. It's really small.
Channing Tatum
#4. Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.
Julie Taymor
#5. I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able to write about balance, because I think there's something I want to try to get at. I'm trying to get at something about the experience of growing up or about families.
Aimee Bender
#6. Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.
Joe Klein
#7. The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.
Amy Lowell
#8. Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mistaken it for knowledge.
Tom Regan
#9. Meanwhile, instead of restraining negative behavior, rewards and punishments can often set it loose - and give rise to cheating, addiction, and dangerously myopic thinking.
Daniel H. Pink
#10. It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on.
James Marsters
#11. Myopia, in more than ninety-five percent of cases, begins between five and ten years of age. It increases largely because the myopic eye is given a minus lens.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
#12. It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.
Marilyn Frye
#13. Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.
David Mitchell
#14. How myopic it is to view His ministry as all crucifixion and no resurrection!
Neal A. Maxwell
#15. We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#16. It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years.
Antonin Scalia
#17. I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.
Kitty Carlisle
#18. Though the sleepy, myopic, and rather bald-pated figure reflected in the mirror was precisely of such insignificant quality as to arrest decidedly no one's exclusive attention at first sight, its owner evidently remained perfectly pleased with all he saw in the mirror.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#19. We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#20. We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#21. I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
Taylor Kitsch
#22. In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.
Rick Perry
#23. I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.
Diego Rivera
#24. I think people tend to be very myopic and they don't understand how their actions impact others.
Jen Lancaster
#25. With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.
Stephen Lang
#26. The unmistakable lesson is that such is the myopic zealotry of environmentalists like Obama that they would implement policies virtually guaranteed to harm our economy significantly, even when they offer no promise of appreciable environmental benefits.
David Limbaugh
#27. Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.
Idina Menzel
#28. Binoculars, and a hawk-like vigilance, reduce the disadvantage of myopic human vision.
J.A. Baker
#29. A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.
Daniel H. Pink
#30. The issue of attention permeates the Gospels, yet the messages of the modern church swing wildly between the twin poles of hollow social action and shallow, myopic entertainment.
Peter Denbo Haskins
#31. We don't have any garlic bulbs, so I bring the cauliflower, and hope that any vampires I encounter will be of the myopic, easily duped variety.
Karen Russell
#32. The notion of a universe filled with cowards ... who stay cowardly FOREVER, no matter how advanced they become ... seems no[t] only unimaginative and temporally myopic, but deeply dismal, as well.
David Brin
#33. If I see only my bias, I have surrendered to a single myopic lens through which to view the world. If I dare to surrender my bias, I will spend the rest of my life seeing the world and throwing away lenses.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#34. They spoke of the crowds that had filled the plaza: the people, always myopic, always easy to fool.
Daniel Alarcon
#35. Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.
Nancy Pearcey
#36. There is a huge business case for diversity. You will be making products for people you don't understand, you don't interact with. If you don't have an inclusive, diverse workforce, it makes you myopic.
Renee James
#37. Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.
Shane Claiborne
#38. Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
Camille Paglia
#39. I think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements from all around it and not to maintain this kind of rigid myopic kind of tunnel vision, in a sense, trying to maintain a certain kind of purity, or whatever.
David Sanborn
#40. The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.
Hank Johnson
#41. Often we don't see the majesty of God's design because we're caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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