Myopically Focused Quotes

#1. Part of getting other people to focus on the future rather than being myopically focused on the present is about living that way yourself and showing that you can make choices today that are about future outcomes and still be having a great time into the present and enjoying your life.

Hill Harper

#2. I bashed myself. I cut myself. I caught on fire. I fell: I had been myopically focused on peeling garlic, and hadn't noticed a bin of beef at my feet until I walked into it.

Bill Buford

#3. he gave it a gentle touch with his hand.

Anonymous

#4. The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.

Murray Rothbard

#5. The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

Joyce Brothers

#6. The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

Yehuda Berg

#8. Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Salman Rushdie

#9. Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.

Vincent Bugliosi

#10. When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.

Abbas Kiarostami

#11. Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.

D.H. Lawrence

#12. Love can take you from any depth and place you on the highest mountain.

Bryant McGill

#13. In 1968, I left Cambridge and went to work in New York with Irving M. London, who was then the chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Tim Hunt

#14. One can sleep almost anywhere, but one must have a place to work. Even if it's not a masterpiece you're doing. Even a bad novel requires a chair to sit on and a bit of privacy.

Henry Miller

#15. Empty him of his confidence by highlighting his failures so that therefore his head will be far more easily swelled with adulations and self-confidences.

Anonymous

#16. You understand there's no such thing as a little death prophecy, right? - Sam

Rick Riordan

#17. I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience.

Nathan Myhrvold