See Things For What They Are Quotes

#1. Raise the roof, that I might see the stars
To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are
Please, I need proof

Barry Privett

#2. See things for what they are. Do what we can. Endure and bear what we must. What blocked the path now is a path. What once impeded action advances action. The Obstacle is the Way.

Ryan Holiday

#3. An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Suzanne Collins

#4. To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself.

Suzanne Segal

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Look, Daniel, at my age either you begin to see things for what they are or you're pretty much done for. Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is manure

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#10. 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

#11. Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

Mayim Bialik

#12. Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can't see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.

Simon Sinek

#13. Look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they really are.

Suzanne Collins

#14. Old texts say many things. You say these things as though they are special
as if it is unusual for one person to see another in pain, and wish to help. As if, he says quietly, to do the extraordinary
or what you think is extraordinary
a person must be told to do so, by the Divine.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#15. In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

Taylor Swift

#17. In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

John Lubbock

#18. I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.

Doyle Brunson

#19. 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

#20. When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they already know.

Paul Strisik

#21. The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.

Laozi

#22. Vin, Vin. Why can't you see? This isn't about good or evil. Morality doesn't even enter into it. Good men will kill as quickly for what they want as evil men - only the things they want are different.

Brandon Sanderson

#23. Names are what you can hear or see, but cannot smell or touch. I don't need a name, as name stand for things they are not, and I am what all names stand for. If you gave me a name, it would mean that we are separate, you and I, when we are not.

- The Blind Girl and the Talking Moon

Cyril Wong

#24. We come to understand the law of casuality - that is, we see that all beings are experiencing what they're experiencing based on their own actions and not by what we wish for them - and therefore we relax in a deep understanding and acceptance of the way things are.

Noah Levine

#25. What use is care? What good is watching for that matter? People are forever watching things. They should be seeing. I see the things I look at. I am a see-er.

Patrick Rothfuss

#26. You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them. Most people don't seem to be like that in this particular place, in this world. You can tell by what they focus on. Read a newspaper, watch a TV show, go to a movie, look at a life.

Frederick Lenz

#27. Sometimes the most beautiful moments in our lives are things that hurt badly at the time. We only see them for what they really were when we stand at the very end and look back.

Emily Henry

#28. I think what's so great about TV is I don't know if all these things were planned at first, or if they see the fans' reactions to things. They really do listen to what the fans want, and feel strongly about, and push for, so all these things are happening organically.

Charlotte Ross

#29. I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

Marc Jacobs

#30. You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the 'symptoms of life.' Fatigue, joint pains, inability to concentrate, perhaps, the kinds of things that anyone over twenty-five gets at some point.

Marcia Angell

#31. Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Desmond Tutu