Unfocusing Quotes

#1. Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

Ayn Rand

#2. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment - on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict 'It is.

Ayn Rand

#3. Good God! To think upon a child
That has no childish ways,
No careless days, No frolics wild,
No words of prayer and praise.
- Land

Bonnie E. Virag

#4. The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

Alexander Alekhine

#5. A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

Steven Pressfield

#6. I think being a little nuts is helpful.

Carter Burwell

#7. I cant stand those food cult people who bring their own food into the house. All those little thermoses and paper bags-it makes the other guests uncomfortable.

Paul Lynde

#8. Dreams give rise to visions in the heart of a man

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Wilderness holds an original presence giving expression to that which we lack, the losses we long to recover, the absences we seek to fill. Wilderness revives the memory of unity. Through its protection we can find faith in our humanity.

Terry Tempest Williams

#10. Harry ran his thumb over the thin skin

Christine DePetrillo

#11. It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#12. If you see what passes as the news on the networks in the United States, there's virtually no coverage of the rest of the world, not even of neighboring countries like Mexico or neighboring continents like Latin America.

Tariq Ali

#13. For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

Tim Yeo

#14. Only a person who perceives that all human beings are important can become a great leader.

Auliq Ice