Blinders Quotes

• You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

  George Lucas

  Motivational, Feet, Never Quit

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• It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Healing, Problem, Blind

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• I raised you to be a thoroughbred. When thoroughbreds run, they wear blinders to keep their eyes focused straight ahead with no distractions, no other horses. They hear the crowd, but they don’t listen. They just run their own race. That’s what you have to do. Don’t listen to anyone comparing you to me or to anyone else. You just run your own race.

  Marlo Thomas

  Running, Horse, Eye

  "Running My Own Race" by Julie Carlson Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

  Meryl Streep

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence.

  John Ortberg

  Gratitude, Self, Independence

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.281, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

  Miriam Makeba

  World, Knows, Ifs

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• A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

  Robert Frost

  Horse, Views, Purpose

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• Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Eye, Remember, Should

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• We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.

  David Suzuki

  Real

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• Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Emotional, Perception

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• The successful people seem to have blinders on. Everything is straight ahead. They go forward and know exactly what they're going to do once they've made up their mind to do it, and by God they don't look sideways.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Wrestling, Successful, People

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• I have some friends that just stick to the same criteria over and over again not realizing there are lots of other kinds of people and that may be what you like. People get in that mindset and put their blinders on.

  Robert Englund

  People, May, Sticks

  Source: graveconcernsezine.com

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• I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget that life has many flavors to savor.

  Dave Smalley

  Thinking, People, Flavor

  Source: www.pmakid.com

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• I don't want to live in a world with blinders on.

  Charlize Theron

  World, Want

  Source: wwd.com

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• I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

  Alyssa Milano

  Angel, Cutting, Experiencing Everything

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

  Betsey Johnson

  Real, Garbage, Speed

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• The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail - not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime.

  Dani Shapiro

  Writing, Persistence, Empathy

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

  Christina Baldwin

  Our World, Views, Vision

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• I didn't really give a sh** what's going on in the rest of the world. I just didn't. I just wanted to focus on me, me, me, my career, my life, just me - blinders.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Careers, Giving, Focus

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.

  Nick Cave

  Evil, Cogs, Plans

  Song: Red Right Hand, Album: Let Love In

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• Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

  Bill Shuster

  Faith, Responsibility, People

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• The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it's their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a peckin' party can wipe out the whole flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it. A mighty awesome sight. The only way to prevent it—with chickens—is to clip blinders on them. So's they can't see.

  Ken Kesey

  Couple, Rip, Party

  Ken Kesey (2002). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (SparkNotes Literature Guide)”, SparkNotes

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• We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

  Anne Hathaway

  Attitude, War, People

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• When things are going awry, it's time to put the blinders on and do your job. Just do your job. Don't worry about the other guy, don't worry about the wins and losses, just worry about what the very next play is.

  John Riggins

  Jobs, Loss, Winning

  "John Riggins Interview: One-On-One With The Redskins Hall of Fame Legend". Interview with Shae Cronin, bleacherreport.com.

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• I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.

  Diane Ackerman

  Technology, Worry, Grace

  "Are We Living in Sensory Overload or Sensory Poverty?". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 10, 2012.

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