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.
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.
My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world.
Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.
The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
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