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• Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy.

  Rumi

  Joy, Answers

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• Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

  Maya Angelou

  Vision, Tears, Cry

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.235, Random House

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• People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Optimistic, Opportunity, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.

  Libba Bray

  Horse, Mean, Looks

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.395, Simon and Schuster

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• Gemma, you see how it is. They've planned our entire lives, from what we shall wear to whom we shall marry and where we shall live. It's one lump of sugar in your tea whether you like it or not and you'd best smile even if you're dying deep inside. We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead. Please, please, please, Gemma, let's not die inside before we have to.

  Libba Bray

  Horse, Mean, Tea

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• I put the blinders on and just work as hard as I can, and hopefully I'll just continue to be a better player.

  Dustin Pedroia

  Player, Hopefully, Hard

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• In transmitting the dharma, there is neither explanation nor teaching; there is neighter hearing nor attainment. Since explanations never really explains, nor are they able to teach, why talk about it? Since listening isn't really hearing or attaining anything, then why listen? But say, since it cannot be explained or heard, how can you enter the Way? But down the bagagge, take of the blinders, and see for yourself that this very place is the valley of the endless spring, this very body is the body of the universe. At such a time, who is it who can accompany this?

  John Daido Loori

  Spring, Teaching, Listening

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• There's more to come. Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders] is coming soon. But I'm proud of making my hometown, which is considered to be completely unfashionable, slightly fashionable. People actually know where it is now.

  Steven Knight

  People, Proud, Hometown

  Source: collider.com

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• If you've ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you'll understand that the underlying theme of everything I've done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.

  Tyler Perry

  Moving, Giving, Done

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• Somehow we allow, if a character goes to the dark side, if we're hooked into that character - I'm obsessed with Peaky Blinders. Those characters are awful, and yet you root for them. You love them! Same with Breaking Bad. That's not as easy in a feature.

  Lauren Shuler Donner

  Character, Dark, Roots

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting because the best actors see the material they’re working on through blinders. They can’t see anything but their role. I could never really do that.

  Jason Alexander

  Teacher, Thinking, Training

  "15 Questions with Jason Alexander". Interview with Noah B. Pisner, www.thecrimson.com. April 5, 2013.

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• When starting a new business, people get blinders on. They have an idea, they stick to the idea, but they don't test it or check with their potential audience to see if this is a good idea. It happens all the time. Talk to your customers, see what they like and what you can change or not change.

  JJ Ramberg

  Ideas, People, Tests

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• I won't look it in the eye. As soon as I do, I get scared. You gotta walk the plank at some point, but at first you gotta put blinders on or you'll overthink things. I think it's dangerous, by the way, to do a lot of talks about your art, to do so much talking and so little making. You get the wrong idea about yourself.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm very, very excited because I'm just completing Episode 6 of Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders], which again I think is the best yet. And I'm loving it and it's not like work, it's not like a labor, I love doing it, and the boys are coming back and they're loving the scripts.

  Steven Knight

  Boys, Thinking, Scripts

  Source: deadline.com

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• I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut way that I could not entertain those thoughts of pleasing people and write this book - that it would be a very different book. Without really sort of investigating that instinct, which I'm glad for, I just made a conscious decision to put blinders on and not think about anything and put it all in. And I did. I put everything in. I had to look at the whole picture to see what I needed.

  Melissa Febos

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've spent three hours with Snoop Dogg, talking about how he loved [Peaky Blinders series]. And David Bowie loved it. The late Leonard Cohen was a fan. It struck a chord with various people that I didn't think it would.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The plan is that there would be three seasons [in Taboo], and, as with Peaky Blinders, I have had a destination in mind from the beginning, because I think it helps as a writer. The destination in mind is that James Keziah Delaney sets foot on Nootka Sound. But that's a long way off.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Feet, Long

  Source: deadline.com

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• Snoop [Dog] said [Peaky Blinders] reminded him of how he got involved with gang culture. It's always fantastically flattering when I see people dress like that and take on the look.

  Steven Knight

  Dog, People, Dresses

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm just a mule with blinders on, I can't help myself.

  Wayne White

  Mules, Helping, I Can

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: "Run your own race, put on your blinders."

  Joan Rivers

  Running, Vegas, Race

  "Joan Rivers: Why Johnny Carson 'Never Ever Spoke to Me Again'" by Joan Rivers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 6, 2012.

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• You invite judgment into your life every time you judge others. To avoid this invitation to negativity, it's best to stop focusing on others' darkness. Instead, pay attention to their strengths. Today, be a horse with blinders. Look at only the good. As you develop this power, you will attract positive forces into your life.

  Yehuda Berg

  Forgiveness, Horse, Judging

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• My life is parallel to a horse race. They have blinders on to keep them from being distracted in the race and keep them focused on winning the race. That's kind of like my life. Focus on the goal, not the things coming at me from the side.

  Reggie Bush

  Horse, Winning, Race

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• But down the bagagge, take of the blinders, and see for yourself that this very place is the valley of the endless spring, this very body is the body of the universe. At such a time, who is it who can accompany this?

  John Daido Loori

  Spring, Awakening, Valleys

  John Daido Loori (2009). “The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me. I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

  Evelyn Keyes

  Girl, Stars, Fairy Stories

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• I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

  Carson McCullers

  Past, Thinking, Sideways

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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