Top 100 Quotes About See Things
#1. Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still. The image is passing through you in a physiological way, into your brain, into your memory - where it stays - it's transmitted by your hands.
Martin Gayford
#2. I'm a positive person who likes to see things get done.
Kathy Calvin
#3. To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself.
Suzanne Segal
#4. If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
Dogen
#5. He said that people need time in order to be able to see things clearly.
Yaa Gyasi
#6. I want to live first. With you. I want to see things and have adventures. I want to learn what is it to be immortal, to be your mate, to be part of your family. I want to be ... ready for them. And I selfishly want to have you all to myself for a while.
Sarah J. Maas
#7. No matter how you see things in this world know that God loves you, he will test you through the challenges you are faced with
Shellie Palmer
#8. I feel like looking in the mirror when you brush your teeth, yes, I see lines, and then I smile and I see things here and there. But that's just, you know, you - that's your journey, you know?
Heidi Klum
#9. Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool. Have unlimited patience. Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save his face. Put yourself in his shoes - so as to see things through his eyes. Avoid self-righteousness like the devil - nothing is so self-blinding.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#10. It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.
S.J. Watson
#11. At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can 'see' things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known.
Boyd K. Packer
#12. How hard it is to see things in life with a child's "eyes of newness" once we have an adult's "eyes of experience".
BigDaddy Abel
#13. I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can ... See things a little differently and whatnot.
Warren Christie
#14. The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.
Henri Matisse
#15. To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.
Tobias Wolff
#16. Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind you will see things that you never saw before.
Frederick Lenz
#17. I see things not as they are but as they might be.
Anonymous
#18. Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize it while you are hearing the tale.
Matthew Kirby
#19. I've learned a lot just being able to see things clearer.
Shy Glizzy
#20. A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
Alain De Botton
#21. Your heart is able to see things that your eyes aren't able to.
Kholoud Yasser
#22. I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.
Evan Davis
#23. We see things not as they are, but as we are ourselves.
H.M. Tomlinson
#24. I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.
Ruth Bernhard
#25. I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.
Joe Abercrombie
#26. Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.
Bruce Catton
#27. When things go right, people credit their own abilities and intelligence. The onlookers do the reverse. When they see things go well for someone else, they sometimes credit the environment, or luck.
Donald A. Norman
#28. We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
James Hillman
#29. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.
Paul Graham
#30. When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
Ben Okri
#31. The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.
David Hockney
#32. It's not an easy time for any parent, this moment when the realization dawns that you've given birth to something that will never see things the way you do, despite the fact that it is your living legacy, that it bears your name.
Richard Russo
#33. When you're stuck, when you need a jolt, when you crave to see things from a new perspective, it's time to play.
Elle Luna
#34. I like the idea of subversively communicating with people ... so that you make people see things in different ways.
Trent Reznor
#35. I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
Robert Mapplethorpe
#36. You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.
Leigh Newman
#37. To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind's eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.
Gilbert Ryle
#38. [Our errors] represent a moment of alienation, both from ourselves and from a previously convincing vision of the world. But what's wrong with that? "To alienate" means to make unfamiliar; and to see things - including ourselves - as unfamiliar is an opportunity to see them anew.
Kathryn Schulz
#39. ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are. Is it possible she could be right? That Peeta could return to me? "I have to
Suzanne Collins
#40. Most people think yoga is simply a form of exercise, but as you know, it's much deeper than that. It's about mindfulness, about focus. It helps us see things as they truly are.
Tracy Weber
#41. I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different ... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.
Meg Tilly
#42. My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York, and I would see things like the 'Easter Bonnet' or 'Broadway Bares,' things I would sneak into.
Max Von Essen
#43. The first step in becoming a global citizen is stripping away the preconceptions of how things should be in order to see things for what they are.
Colleen Mariotti
#44. The mob will now and then see things in a right light.
Horace
#45. Art teaches something we all need to learn, especially about people who are different from ourselves: To see things the way they truly are, sometimes you have to look more deeply.
Ron Hall
#46. She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.
Joanne Harris
#47. Children are loving, they don't gossip, they don't complain, they're just openhearted. They're ready for you. They don't judge. They don't see things by way of color. They're very child-like. That's the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality.
Michael Jackson
#48. I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly.
Bernard Gilpin
#49. When you've lived as long I've lived, you see things from a bigger lens, and you try to share that with the young guys coming up, including being patient.
Richard DeVos
#50. Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.
Henry Rollins
#51. Sometimes the only reason for us to be somewhere else is to see things from a different perspective.
Leila Summers
#52. From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
N. T. Wright
#53. But the fellow talked like a cheap novelist. - Or like a very good novelist for the matter of that, if it's the business of a novelist to make you see things clearly.
Ford Madox Ford
#54. One of the biggest challenge in life is to see things for what they are instead of what you want them to be.
Saahil Prem
#55. You need to see things, REALLY see them, feel them, live them, so you know what's big and what's little, what matters and what to put aside.
Miley Cyrus
#56. I don't always see humor in things. Especially when I smash my pinky toe into a coffee table leg in the middle of the night. But sometimes I'll see things, or experience things, that make me go, "Huh, maybe that's a bit."
Brian Regan
#57. It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
Yoshihiko Noda
#58. Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.
Lorraine Hansberry
#59. To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.
Fred Wilson
#60. When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience.
Stephen R. Covey
#61. The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.
Shunryu Suzuki
#62. This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.
Victoria Lincoln
#63. He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
Jose Marti
#64. More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people bake the bread, and some people write the songs.
Jackson Browne
#65. If there is any one secret of success," said Henry Ford, "it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Anonymous
#67. When wisdom arises, our inherent power as a being naturally arises as well, and then we begin to view things differently. We begin to see things based on the truth that we have found inside, not the truth that is
imposed by others on us.
M. Laurie Cantil
#68. I think sometimes we're presented with the truth but we don't want to believe it. We see things the way we want to see them. Sometimes, we choose to live in denial.
Amber L. Johnson
#69. No two people see things the same way.
Jim Lehrer
#70. It's strange the way people hear and see things. Like going to films - -violent films. To me, seeing violence in a film makes me hate the violence. But there's beauty in violence if it's put over the right way.
Jim Capaldi
#71. It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.
Douglas Adams
#72. Nico di Angelo has warned them: the House of Hades would stir their worst memories, make them see things and hear things from the past Their ghosts would become restless.
Rick Riordan
#73. Seeing clearly means that you're smart enough to know when a project is doomed, or brave enough to persevere when your colleagues are fleeing for the hills. Abandoning your worldview in order to try on someone else's is the first step in being able to see things as they are.
Seth Godin
#74. Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.
H.P. Lovecraft
#75. It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It's particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
Byron Katie
#76. The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
Salman Rushdie
#77. But then men do not see things the same way we do, she thought. They have different eyes.
Alexander McCall Smith
#78. Maturity is the ability to see and act on behalf of others. Immature people don't see things from someone else's point of view. They rarely concern themselves with what's best for others. In many ways, they act like small children.
John C. Maxwell
#79. Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
Sophocles
#80. I think so many people are reactive ... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it.
Ray Dalio
#81. I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now.
James Gandolfini
#82. You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
George Bernard Shaw
#83. You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.
Heather O'Neill
#84. The common man cannot see things objectively because his mind is clouded by anxiety about achieving his goals. Seeing clearly means not projecting our goals into the world.
John Gray
#85. I'm sure if you see things you wrote when you were 19, you cringe. I saw stuff like angry poetry that I wrote when I was mad at my father, or photos I took where I smeared period blood on myself. It's embarrassing.
Kathleen Hanna
#86. It may not be prudent to seek new things, but it is wise to see things in a new way.
Debasish Mridha
#87. My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.
Susan Powter
#88. Whether it's death or life or a fence, you see things how you choose to see them.
Laura Lee Gulledge
#89. To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
Gertrude Stein
#90. My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
Muhammad Yunus
#91. You need to see things as they are, not worse than they are, than see them better than they are, and make them that way.
Jordan Belfort
#92. I do see things that are funny on the net. I Googled myself the other day and found out that I was worth $250m, and that I was the highest-paid guy in show business! I wish so hard it was true. It is, of course, the complete opposite. I'm neither rich nor do I make a lot of money.
David Crosby
#93. I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
Don DeLillo
#94. All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.
Hal Borland
#95. To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao-Tzu
#96. In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
Will Rogers
#97. The ability to see things the way they are, not to expect constant gratification but to understand that all things are limited, is what allows for personal growth.
Mark Epstein
#98. Sketching on a regular basis requires you to pay close attention to the visual world around you. With practice, you begin to see things you never noticed before.
Paul Laseau
#99. When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
Brian Moore
#100. In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.
Beau Willimon
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