You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.
Interpretation
Being overly focused can cloud your judgment and perception.
This quote suggests that sometimes, having too much information or being overly critical can lead to confusion rather than clarity. It implies that the ability to perceive and understand situations often requires balance and restraint, rather than an overwhelming rush to observe everything at once.
In practice
In a leadership seminar discussing decision-making processes.
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.
The fancies of wine are authentic events.
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.
Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be called "In his last body", "Great in wisdom" and a "Great man."
There you go, Harry!β Ron shouted over the noise. βYou werenβt being thick after all β you were showing moral fiber!
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