Quotes About Shortsighted

#1. You must remember that our God has all knowledge and all wisdom, and that therefore it is very possible He may guide you into paths wherein He knows great blessings are awaiting you, but which, to the shortsighted human eyes around you, seem sure to result in confusion and loss.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#2. To this point it probably looks like I am setting this up as a slam-dunk case for ambulating while working, and getting ready to lambaste treadmill-resistant managers as insensitive and tragically shortsighted knuckle draggers. Well, they are.

Neal Stephenson

#3. Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.

Lois Wyse

#4. So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

Jay Inslee

#5. To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Since the gap between the rich countries and the poor can be removed, it will be. If we are shortsighted, inept, incapable either of good-will or enlightened self-interest, then it may be removed to the accompaniment of war and starvation: but removed it will be. The questions are, how, and by whom.

C.P. Snow

#8. I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.

Isaac Asimov

#9. Pricing low is shortsighted, because someone else is always willing to sacrifice more profit margin and drive you both bankrupt.

Timothy Ferriss

#10. Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise.

Erika Johansen

#11. Who can be 100 percent sure of one's choices in life? How do you know that your beloved will always remain the same, or that you'll never change your mind? Growth and change are two of the great gifts we get from time. It would be shortsighted to spurn them.

Alma Katsu

#12. Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.

Leonid Brezhnev

#13. Companies need to have rules - that's a given - but they don't have to be shortsighted and lazy attempts at creating order.

Travis Bradberry

#14. I apologize for my sister, Hafell," he said quickly. "She is overwrought from events of the past few days." Nori kicked his foot, but he didn't turn a hair as he finished smoothly, "I believe she meant to say that she was a stubborn, shortsighted, small-minded, Randonnen mountain rat.

Tara K. Harper

#15. It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there aren't financial incentives or political rewards. We owe to ourselves to learn from the past so we can try to do better.

Sheri Fink

#16. Stupid. Shortsighted. A man born with a sense for raw opportunity where his soul should have been. Miller's

James S.A. Corey

#17. Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world.

James Patterson

#18. Charlotte Yates loved humanity with all her heart, but she really had to draw the line at individuals. For the most part they were incredibly stupid, clumsy, selfish, and criminally shortsighted. Look, for instance, at who they voted for.

Magnus Flyte

#19. The good man believed that shortsighted people were also deaf and that their spectacles would become clearer if their ears heard more sharply.

Joseph Roth

#20. I simply feel that world domination is not my cup of tea. Is that shortsighted?

Gail Carriger

#21. Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's protege but had never quite lived up to everything that his father had.

Robert Lacey

#22. Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

Radhanath Swami

#23. Only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

Russell Kirk

#24. Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.

Joel Osteen

#25. Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

David Fincher

#26. It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.

Mel Martinez

#27. In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

Ron Wyden

#28. 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

#29. Trial by jury must and shall be preserved! Amidst the throng of crude sacrilegisms ... that assail us nowadays in the legal sanctuary, none is more shortsighted, none more dangerous, than the proposal to abolish trial by jury.

John Henry Wigmore

#30. Public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

Winifred Holtby

#31. All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression.

David Foster Wallace

#32. It is a shortsighted priesthood leader who doesn't see the value in calling upon the sisters to share the understanding and inspiration they possess.

M. Russell Ballard

#33. [Some men are shortsighted, so] going to prison or going to hell just doesn't matter to these men.

Rodney Stark

#34. But sitting out tests that have proven essential in lifting the achievement of at-risk students is shortsighted, if not selfish.

Anonymous

#35. Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted.

Jeaniene Frost

#36. They're my burka ... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.

Karl Lagerfeld

#37. We are too shortsighted to rejoice in the moments that deserve it.

Nadia Hashimi

#38. Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.

James T. Walsh

#39. The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded?'

John Templeton

#40. The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted ... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past.

Gary Shteyngart

#41. The great Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tom Seaver put it perfectly: In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Jeff Olson

#42. Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.

Adam Smith

#43. Seriously, she'd been tricked into bringing him toilet paper on the crapper too many times not to know he was a little shortsighted.

Debra Anastasia

#44. The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.

Greg Ginn

#45. Only the most arrogant, shortsighted, and spiritually bereft of our species would say that, at any cost to other species, we need only worry about our own.

Timothy Walker

#46. If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.

James MacDonald

#47. Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.

Ezra Taft Benson

#48. The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

John Foster Dulles

#49. 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