Top 100 Sayings About Seeing Things
#1. To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
George Saunders
#2. My outlook has changed, Antonia. Last year this time, I'd bemoaned the ruined hay." He shrugged. "Now I know what real loss is. So I'm seeing things differently.
Debra Holland
#3. There's some comfort in seeing things go on; birds keep singing, buses keep running. But if you want those things to continue, perhaps you have to accept that the other kinds of things, unhappier, even horrific ones, will continue too. And that's harder.
Ashley Hay
#4. Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom.
Allan Lokos
#5. Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears open ... Trace difficulties.
Orison Swett Marden
#6. Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does it in small ways of everyday rebellion just almost to assert who he is, like not putting a license plate on his car.
Walter Isaacson
#7. You start seeing things that you're afraid of ... or things you've always wished for.
Eowyn Ivey
#8. I think people understand things different when they get older. It's not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I'm just understanding things different. Better.
Jeff Lindsay
#9. The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.
Agatha Christie
#10. The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.
Ramin Bahrani
#11. The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.
Eve Ensler
#12. I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.
Jonathan Shapiro
#13. It turns out we're very good at not seeing things
Jack Hitt
#14. In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.
Henry Flynt
#15. A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader's eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.
Bill Barich
#16. A lot of people [in the U.S.] used to say punk really didn't change anything, but I think it did. It was an intangible thing, not a visible thing. It took us through to a new phase of music and a way of seeing things.
Steve Diggle
#17. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.
Jerry Saltz
#18. But the greatest battle of all is with yourself - your weaknesses, your emotions, your lack of resolution in seeing things through to the end. You must declare unceasing war on yourself.
Robert Greene
#19. Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.
Tim Burton
#20. As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.
Kevin DeYoung
#21. There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#22. Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.
Terry Pratchett
#23. If you want to convince a criminal to see things your way, start by seeing things theirs.
Aubrea Summer
#24. Julia and her family, like many others in the GDR, trod this line between seeing things for what they were in the GDR, and ignoring those realities in order to stay sane.
Anna Funder
#25. What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.
Twyla Tharp
#26. Game management, game decisions, adjustments, seeing things during games - it's all important.
Bill Belichick
#27. Effective as perspective is ... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.
Graham Collier
#28. Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things. There are no illusions because there is no self.
Frederick Lenz
#29. I'm inspired by other people's creativity, just seeing things happen and wondering where they come from. That gets my mind going. Even if it's just wanting to know how something works.
Wiz Khalifa
#30. On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment, that is a very finite, human way of seeing things.
Frederick Lenz
#31. One's destruction is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things. (Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch)
Henry Miller
#32. Call it what you will, it's about getting up off your chair, going where the action is, and seeing things firsthand. Because when we see things for ourselves, with our own two eyes, it changes us.
David Sturt
#33. Compassion is born out of lovingkindness.
It is born of knowing our oneness, not just thinking about it or wishing it were so. It is born out of the wisdom of seeing things exactly as they are.
Sharon Salzberg
#34. When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.
Leo Buscaglia
#37. For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.
Matthieu Ricard
#38. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you find out you hardly know them at all. I feel exhilarated, kind of like I'm being spun around a whirlpool, circling closer and closer around the same people and the same events but seeing things from different angles.
Lauren Oliver
#39. Kids can learn a lot by seeing things rather than reading it.
Diogo Morgado
#40. Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#41. I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in very narrow, individual, kind of Freudian terms, but seeing them in a much broader, societal way that was going to deepen and enrich my talent.
Jane Fonda
#43. When you look at this mirror I hope you'll remember that there's always another way of seeing things: that's the beginning of wisdom.
John Barth
#44. Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts.
Sean Covey
#45. What do you know about love? Are your feelings more holy than mine? Am I exempt from the knowledge of love until I become "of age?" Do I automatically become human enough when I start loving you and seeing things your way?
Beatrice Sparks
#46. Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it.
Alexis Taylor
#47. Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.
Bertrand Russell
#48. The trick to seeing things other people missed was to look for them.
Gwenda Bond
#49. You don't know what it's been like all these years, seeing things that are invisible to everybody else. I knew I wasn't crazy, I knew it, but the rest of the world thought I was, and after a while even I started to wonder, you know?
C.A. Gray
#50. I began seeing things out of my right eye. This was a relief because Mom and Dad did not know if I would ever see anything again.
Amy Rankin
#51. I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.
Nick Zinner
#52. Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things.
Ronald Rolheiser
#53. When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
Robert Greene
#54. I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.
John Grisham
#55. I think my Latino culture has equipped me with a different point of view than the rest of my counterparts, and seeing things from a different angle has helped me a lot. I feel very proud of my culture, of my Latino heritage.
Nina Garcia
#56. It is extremely necessary to realize that the world doesn't only have one way of seeing things.
Christian Louboutin
#57. Lesson no. 20: Happiness is a certain way of seeing things.
Francois Lelord
#58. The human mind was just bad at seeing things it did not expect to see, and a bit too eager to see what it expected to see. "Confirmation
Michael Lewis
#59. Everyone says she's mad.'
'How do they know?' I asked.
'Because she's different from other people, I suppose.'
'Is that being mad?'
'No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.
Ruskin Bond
#60. With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something else. Envy, in fact, is one form of vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations
Bertrand Russell
#61. Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.
Satish Kumar
#62. Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
Ai Weiwei
#63. Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.
Immanuel Kant
#64. The gods know, happiness is a precious and rare commodity, and indeed it seems that the more intelligent and perceptive the individual, the less happy they generally are. The cost of seeing things as they are, I expect.
Steven Erikson
#65. Because we were dead, we could see everything. And because we were dead, it didn't matter what we could see. So the whole seeing-things-from-the-grave concept? Majorly overrated. All you ended up seeing was more than you wanted to in the first place.
Kami Garcia
#66. I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
Harriet Martineau
#67. My grandpa would take me to the driving range and, I don't know, it didn't take me long to realize I'm a little different with golf. I have an eye for seeing things differently. Somehow I just see shots in my head.
Rickie Fowler
#68. Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.
Philip Larkin
#69. Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings
#70. Christianity brings to fulfilment and completion imperfect and partial insights about reality, scattered abroad in human culture. Tolkien gave Lewis a lens, a way of seeing things, which
Alister E. McGrath
#71. The road is a lonely, exhausting, invigorating, and living thing, but the wonder of seeing things we never would have dreamed of makes it worth the price we pay to leave the safety of home
Zak Bagans
#72. He said Manhattan had other problems - whatever that meant. And sometimes when I looked across the water, I could swear I was seeing things. Sadie laughed about it, but once I thought I saw a flying horse. Probably just the mansion's magic barriers causing optical illusions, but still, it was weird.
Rick Riordan
#73. Iculous because at his age he had not enjoyed
that which all fiction taught him was the most important
thing in life; but he had the unfortunate gift of seeing things
as they were, and the reality which was offered him differed
too terribly from the ideal of his dreams.
W. Somerset Maugham
#74. My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things ...
Sebastiao Salgado
#75. Selfless service gives contentment and change the vision of seeing things invisible to others.
Kishore Bansal
#76. A horse leaves footprints, even on this ground. If we find them, we'll know for a fact he was there. If not ... well, these are days to make a man think he's seeing things.
Robert Jordan
#77. For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.
Evangeline Lilly
#78. There are different ways of seeing things. That's art. There is no one interpretation.
Sharon Leach
#79. Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.
Douglas Adams
#80. Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things.
Neil Gaiman
#81. We have new tools that can give the audience a sense of not only being there, which is the key element in an IMAX film, but also seeing things in a way that they won't see on television or in feature films.
Greg MacGillivray
#82. It's not love. It's an obsession. And it's not art. It's a way of seeing things. A way to see the things that aren't there.
Kirsty Eagar
#83. When we finally become present in our lives its as if we are seeing things for the first time.
Renae A. Sauter
#84. Ignazio Michele Vitale," I say playfully, intentionally flubbing the middle name, just to get more of a rise out of him. "I can't believe you were singing a song from the eighties."
"You were seeing things.
J.M. Darhower
#85. I was 30 when I did 'The Matrix.' When you turn 30, your life and your world view change. I remember feeling relieved - it was like I was seeing things in a deeper way.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#86. Empathy, as we have seen, leads to caring, altruism, and compassion. Seeing things from another's perspective breaks down biased stereotypes, and so breeds tolerance and acceptance of differences.
Daniel Goleman
#87. One of the side effects of growing up is seeing things in a different light.
Alexandra Monir
#88. It is a high place with a chance of falling. Things are more easily seen from edges. Danger rouses the sleeping mind. It makes some things clear. Seeing things is a part of being a namer.
Patrick Rothfuss
#89. When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.
Terry Pratchett
#90. She had this uncanny sense of seeing things the way they were instead of the way you'd want them to be, of knowing me better than I knew myself. She could sniff out the truth even if it hurt.
Mike Gayle
#91. Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were.
There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most situations, and "What's the right thing to do?" wasn't an easy question.
Dee Williams
#92. When the habit of seeing things as they are turns into a mania, we lament the madman we have been and are no longer.
Emil Cioran
#93. There's times you want to give up and times you want to move on ... you get so much satisfaction out of staying and sticking with it, and seeing things turn around.
Paul Pierce
#94. The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias
John Derbyshire
#95. Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off. It is seeing things clearly, and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#96. When someone in privileged circumstances gets a bit bewildered or stymied or maybe stumbles, the light he sees things in will change. But seeing things in a different light doesn't mean he's changed his vantage point.
Soseki Natsume
#97. Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision
Bob Selden
#98. Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this other person, seeing things through their eyes ...
Deborah Moggach
#99. It's called enlightenment. It's nothing more or less than seeing things as they are rather than as we wish or believe them to be.
Steve Hagen
#100. One question remained to me. "If a higher level of bujutsu involves fighting with the mind, what then is the very highest level?" He closed his eyes for a while, seeing things he would never show me. "That," he said, "would be never to fight at all.
Tan Twan Eng
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