Mental Blinkers Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go. — Sophia Amoruso

If Americans desire to be both ignorant and free, they want what never has been and what never will be. — Thomas Jefferson

How he loved and yet
wished to leave you: always both, at once. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Just do what you were going to do, before you said you were going to do it. — Delma Pryce

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too. — Peter Shilton

Kate was about to protest when something caused her to look in her mother's direction. She was standing statue-like in front of the television with that brave, painted-on smile. Then Kate realized what had caught her attention: her mother's tear-filled eyes were reflecting the on-off motion of the blinkers like a watery mirror. Kate stared transfixed at the flashing points of light that betrayed her mother's pain. The urge to tell her father how much she wanted him to be proud of her and how much he had hurt her, faded in the dark depths of her mother's eyes. — Sabrynne McLain

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done. — Jodi Picoult

Those who do not love me do not deserve to live. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

We are akin to the inhabitants of a small isolated island who have just invented the first boat, and are about to set sail without a map or even a destination. Indeed, we are in a somewhat worse condition. The inhabitants of our imaginary island are at least aware that they occupy just a small space within a large and mysterious sea. We on the other hand fail to appreciate that we are living on a tiny island of consciousness within a perhaps limitless ocean of alien mental states. Just — Yuval Noah Harari

And my daughter's too smart. She gets it watching TV. She gets it. She's five. She gets it. I ... I have a smart kid; I don't want a smart kid. I'm gonna start feedin' her lead paint chips just to bring her down. — Christopher Titus

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated. — Hugh Laurie

I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up. — Henry Rollins