Blinkered People Quotes & Sayings

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am. — Muhammad Ali

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks. — Jennifer Shahade

Or at the very least, you'll remember that there once was a moment. And that it was perfect. — Jessica Brody

You really don't play nice when it comes to something you want, do you?" I breathed.
His eyes gleamed. "You have no idea. — Jeaniene Frost

I didn't want to be a part of anything special. Bad things happened to special people. Usually failure followed by an early death — Mindee Arnett

If better is possible at what point is good, good enough? — Mark W. Boyer

[I]f the basic claims of religion are true, the scientific worldview is so blinkered and susceptible to supernatural modification as to be rendered nearly ridiculous; if the basic claims of religion are false, most people are profoundly confused about the nature of reality, confounded by irrational hopes and fears, and tending to waste precious time and attention
often with tragic results. Is this really a dichotomy about which science can claim to be neutral? — Sam Harris

It was my dream
Not its failure that damaged me — Linda Gregg

Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what I think prayer is all about. It doesn't matter which stories they believe in, they're all doing the same thing, kind of casting a line out to outer space, like there's something out there to connect to. It's like people make themselves part of something bigger that way, and maybe it makes them less afraid. — Craig Silvey

When you begin with the premise "I treat everyone equally," you have already blinkered yourself from seeing where you don't, or can't, or shouldn't. There is no way to treat two people equally, because they are each unique, with respective strengths and weaknesses. — Anthony D. Ravenscroft

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government. — John Allen Fraser

The myth about the CIA dated back to the Bay of Pigs: that all its successes were secret, that only its failures were trumpeted. The truth was that the CIA could not succeed without recruiting and sustaining skilled and daring officers and foreign agents. The agency failed daily at that mission, and to pretend otherwise was a delusion. — Tim Weiner

I did live in Paris for three years and I prefer New York. — Michelle Stuart

There are people who are out to take advantage of others and some who are merely putting in their time. But most of the people I encounter in the work place are desperately trying to make a difference and what to be effective at their jobs. — David Livermore

If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the apex of its development; if they can be made to understand that the conflicts and contradictions of society can only be resolved by scientific long-range planning-then we will succeed in maintaining what civilization we have and drive onward to greater culture. — Joost Meerloo

Family is everything. That is the creed in this country. But that creed gets others killed. And it slowly kills you. Your family is the first thing you'll lose. Your soul will be the last. — Karina Halle

In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed. — Margaret Thatcher

Mind needs more than 3D perception to be able to see edge of the universe. — Toba Beta