Quotes About Blinders

#1. Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

Betsey Johnson

#2. There's a photographer who says cat lovers always believe their own cat is better looking than anyone else's. According to her, they've all got blinders on.

Takashi Hiraide

#3. I just became exposed to the world, like the blinders had been removed. In typical good-kid fashion, I never really experienced the "bad" things I was around, but my awareness of them increased.

Connor Franta

#4. Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

Bill Shuster

#5. But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

Miriam Makeba

#6. I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget that life has many flavors to savor.

Dave Smalley

#7. You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing blinders. If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself.

Gwynne Shotwell

#8. We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.

David Suzuki

#9. It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Dan Brown

#10. I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.

Diane Ackerman

#11. To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me.

Evelyn Keyes

#12. The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#13. We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.

Libba Bray

#14. Do you have everything you need?
No. She needed blinders to keep from staring at him, and a box of tissue to wipe the drool. Throw in some steel armour for her heart and a fail-safe chastity belt, and then she'd be good to go.

Roxanne St. Claire

#15. Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

Michael Dirda

#16. I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.

Bill Parcells

#17. I couldn't even see that woman because I have blinders on when you are around, and every single thought in my head is about you.

Carolyn Brown

#18. That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing are all calibrated for the enjoyment of a perfect world. But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses.

Rohinton Mistry

#19. The successful people seem to have blinders on. Everything is straight ahead. They go forward and know exactly what they're going to do once they've made up their mind to do it, and by God they don't look sideways.

Jack Nicklaus

#20. Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy.

Rumi

#21. If you've ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you'll understand that the underlying theme of everything I've done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.

Tyler Perry

#22. Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.

Jason Alexander

#23. Peaky Blinders"?

Anonymous

#24. I didn't really give a sh** what's going on in the rest of the world. I just didn't. I just wanted to focus on me, me, me, my career, my life, just me - blinders.

Madonna Ciccone

#25. But Tess always wondered - maybe people were better off with the watered-down version of life, life with blinders, filters, cars that ran and buildings that went up on time, simple, stupid, mindless jobs. Maybe they were happy.

Jennifer McMahon

#26. I put the blinders on and just work as hard as I can, and hopefully I'll just continue to be a better player.

Dustin Pedroia

#27. True beauty will radiate regardless. It's not your duty to remove the blinders of those who choose not to see you. Light illuminates light.

Alexandra Elle

#28. It was as if the blinders to his vision had been lifted and he wanted to make up for every moment the two of them had missed.

Kele Moon

#29. No emphaty when you had blinders on.

Toba Beta

#30. I want to see the whole picture - as nearly as I can. I don't want to put on the blinders of 'good' and 'bad', and limit my vision. If I used the term 'good' on a thing I'd lose my license to inspect it, because there might be bad in it. Don't you see? I want to be able to look at the whole thing.

John Steinbeck

#31. You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

George Lucas

#32. When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.

Mark Waters

#33. Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.

Jay Maisel

#34. You must be willing to take off the blinders and open your eyes, to see what lie ahead of you.

Carlotta Arradondo

#35. Middle-age should be shot. Things about it gall me. First, that those younger despise the thought of getting old, and, hence, me. Second, that those older despise the thought of me being younger, and, hence, me. So here I am, pressed from both sides, forced to wear blinders - FULL SPEED AHEAD!

Chila Woychik

#36. There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

Laini Taylor

#37. All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.

Lucas Till

#38. Couldn't change the brain I'd been born with, so instead I learned how to narrow the world with makeshift blinders, until all I noticed was what I wanted to notice. That's autism, for those who've never been there themselves.

Jodi Picoult

#39. Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

Meryl Streep

#40. A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

Robert Frost

#41. The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.

Rick Bass

#42. People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as well have been wearing blinders for all that they noticed anyone else's.

Nenia Campbell

#43. I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

Carson McCullers

#44. When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Maybe that was a good thing in the beginning. I had blinders on, and I charged forward.

Lesli Linka Glatter

#45. I never considered myself more able than anybody because I had problems just like anybody else. When I practiced, I solved problems, like any of my fellow students. I looked at my own work, and looked ahead, with blinders, almost.

Marc-Andre Hamelin

#46. I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

Alyssa Milano

#47. People like to wear blinders, so they don't have to cope with the bad things in life.

Katie Hamstead

#48. Take off your undead blinders and open your dismembered arms to progress. Fast zombies are scarier, plain and simple!

Greg McCabe

#49. Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

Maya Angelou

#50. All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.

Lou Holtz

#51. When starting a new business, people get blinders on. They have an idea, they stick to the idea, but they don't test it or check with their potential audience to see if this is a good idea. It happens all the time. Talk to your customers, see what they like and what you can change or not change.

JJ Ramberg

#52. Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

Mercedes Lackey

#53. When you turn guesses into plans, you enter a danger zone. Plans let the past drive the future. They put blinders on you. "This is where we're going because, well, that's where we said we were going." And that's the problem: Plans are inconsistent with improvisation.

Jason Fried

#54. At what point do [progressives] take off our partisan blinders and start wondering whether a very powerful faction of Democrats actually continues to SUPPORT President Bush and the War in Iraq?

David Sirota

#55. My life is parallel to a horse race. They have blinders on to keep them from being distracted in the race and keep them focused on winning the race. That's kind of like my life. Focus on the goal, not the things coming at me from the side.

Reggie Bush

#56. A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: 'Run your own race, put on your blinders.'

Joan Rivers

#57. See things for what they are. Drop your blinders and raise the sewer to eye level. Admit that your swimming in shit. If you don't acknowledge the turd heading down the drain towards you; you can't dodge it.

Karen Marie Moning

#58. Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#59. We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

Norman Cousins

#60. When things are going awry, it's time to put the blinders on and do your job. Just do your job. Don't worry about the other guy, don't worry about the wins and losses, just worry about what the very next play is.

John Riggins

#61. We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.

Victoria Moran

#62. Family," she whispered. "So many people go through their lives with blinders on. They become self-involved and only want to think about their wants and their desires. They don't leave room for anything else, and then, too late, they realize how important their families were.

Julie Garwood

#63. Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces ... where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play, struggle.

Witold Gombrowicz

#64. Human kind gradually begins to remove the blinders from their consciousness about life, about what is real and what is not. Intuition and psychic abilities increase.

Elaine Seiler

#65. Knowledge doesn't exist in matters of the heart.

Willowy Whisper