Myopically Quotes

#1. By focusing only on jobs and inflation - and, in effect, only on the former - the Fed behaved myopically, indeed politically.

Raghuram G. Rajan

#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. 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

#4. We myopically stare at the gaping hole left in our lives and see nothing but the hole, not realizing a hole is defined by everything around it that is not a hole.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.

Philip Yancey

#6. Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.

Simon Mainwaring

#7. Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

Reed Hastings

#8. I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

Patti Smith

#9. I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certain silly things cease to be silly if done by sensible people in an imprudent way.

Jane Austen

#10. I shook my head in wonder. "How does he do it?"
"Want to know my secret?" Nikolai asked from behind us. We both jumped. He leaned in, looked from left to right, and whispered loudly. "I have a lot of money."
I rolled my eyes.
"No, really," he protested. "A lot of money.

Leigh Bardugo

#11. People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.

James Gleick

#12. I'll just try to keep my mind open to whatever comes my way.

McCoy Tyner

#13. As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow

Henry Ford

#14. I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

Sally Quinn

#15. Do not let one moment go by that doesn't remind you that your heart beats 900 times a day, and there are enough gallons of blood to make everyone of you oceans

Anis Mojgani