Quotes on Seeing

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

Women have much to tell us. Women are capable of seeing things in a different angle. Women can pose questions that we men cannot understand.

What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.

Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain of natural catastrophes and devastating weather patterns that global warming is beginning to set off around the world.. the frequency and intensity of which are breaking records thousands of years old.

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?

People only see what they are prepared to see.

. . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

You find that you have to do many things, more than just lift up the camera and shoot, and so you get involved in it in a very physical way. You may find that the picture you want to do can only be made from a certain place, and you're not there, so you have to physically go there. And that participation may spur you on to work harder on the thing, . . . because in the physical change of position you start seeing a whole different relationship.

You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero to serve you, and all that is like you.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ]