Nearsighted Vision Quotes & Sayings

Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal. — Eric Maisel

It's a myth that grief makes you closer. — Ava Dellaira

Even if I never get to see the light of heaven, it will still be worth my sacrifice as long as I save you. — Reyna Pryde

Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages. — Steve Wozniak

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult. — Rupert Sheldrake

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone. — Quintilian

Eragon doubted that he would ever like an Urgal, but the iron certitude of his prejudice only a few minutes before now seemed ignorant, and he could not retain it in good conscience. — Christopher Paolini

I bleed like nobody else. — Ric Flair

You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills. — Herb Kelleher

Internal conviction drives external action. — Todd Stocker

The parents sat round watching, and in their crass faces - faces not harsh or evil, only blunted by ignorance and mean virtues - you could see a solemn approval, a solemn pleasure in the spectacle of sin rebuked. — George Orwell

I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.' — Pat Conroy

In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public. — Tom Wolfe