Blinkers Quotes

• I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.

  Paul Klee

  Character, Self, Views

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• Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Goal, Goals And Objectives, Defined

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.6, Grove Press

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• Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.

  J. L. Austin

  World, Littles, Facts

  "Philosophical Papers". Book by J. L. Austin, edited by James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, p. 182, 1979.

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• I need advice and opinion-honest opinion. I want to get better. Why go around with blinkers on?

  Natasha Richardson

  Advice, Get Better, Needs

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• Imagine driving a car that isn't working well. When you step on the gas the car sometimes lurches forward and sometimes doesn't respond. When you blow the horn it sounds blaring. The brakes sometimes slow the car, but not always. The blinkers work occasionally, the steering is erratic, and the speedometer is inaccurate.
  You are engaged in a constant struggle to keep the car on the road, and it is difficult to concentrate on anything else.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Struggle, Blow, Car

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• You are thinking about where your brain is at any time. It's very tricky but it's why women are very well suited to rule the world in the future, because of the multi-tasking they do and their ability to be moving in 15 directions at once. It's the women who behave like men, who focus in that singular way with the blinkers on, who have problems. You get a lot more done that way maybe, but you also lose the perception of who's behind you, what's going on, the 360 degrees of it, the whole picture of life that we do have as women.

  Meryl Streep

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Today many politicians suggest that where the federal government does not act, there must be anarchy. That view is odd, blinkering out the work of state and towns, which until recently did much of our charitable and cultural work. That view also blinkers out the role of mutual societies and churches.

  Amity Shlaes

  Government, Views, Church

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers.

  Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

  Fellows

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• I live in Selfridges because it has everything under one roof. Liberty's is great for the same reason - I'm so lazy, I hate walking from shop to shop. Powder in Crouch End always has great designer labels in, so when I walk past I have to put my blinkers on because every time I nip in I come out with too much stuff; it's dangerous.

  Sheridan Smith

  Hate, Past, Lazy

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• Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Views, Sanity

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings. They don't want to admit that they might have minds and personalities because that would make it quite difficult for them to do what they do; so we find that within the lab communities there is a very strong resistance among the researchers to admitting that animals have minds, personalities and feelings.

  Jane Goodall

  Strong, Animal, Personality

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• Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Feelings, Want

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• The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can be cramped just as a body may be, and a Muslim veil blinkers both your vision and your destiny. It is the mark of a kind of apartheid, not the domination of a race but of a sex.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Sex, Destiny, Men

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue, Chapman wrote. All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.

  Philip K. Chapman

  America, Years, Europe

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