Peripheral Vision Quotes

• Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Real, Vision, Happenings

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.673, St. Martin's Griffin

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• When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise.

  Martin Amis

  Cousin, Memories, Book

  "Experience". Book by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. 2000.

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• I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Visionaries

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• You can see the future best through peripheral vision.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Vision

  "Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance". Foreword to the book by Chunka Mui and Larry Downes, 1998.

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• Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• The pace of change is so great, there is always something else going on. What that says to me is that you have to have strategic vision and peripheral vision. Strategic vision is the ability to look ahead and peripheral vision is the ability to look around, and both are important.

  Carly Fiorina

  Vision, Important, Looks

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• Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner.

  Anna Quindlen

  Vision, Sometimes, Corners

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• An oral society develops both sides of your brain, and the utilization of your brain is more complete than in a linear education module. The written word limits your brain capability by immediately focusing on one area. You don't have any peripheral vision. It immediately divorces you from the environment.

  Russell Means

  Divorce, Vision, Brain

  Source: progressive.org

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• I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Other Worlds, Vision, Knows

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• When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Positive, Positivity, People

  Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.57, Harmony

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• Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

  Andrew Pyper

  Feet, Vision, Monsters

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• I'd done a drawing of the model using only peripheral vision, looking at a spot on the wall to the right of where she sat. It wasn't really a drawing of her I produced; it was a drawing of the cloud of lights and darks she dissolved into when I focused on the spot. You could look at my drawing of this cloud and read it as a nude female figure, though a little translation was required.

  Peter Blegvad

  Wall, Clouds, Light

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Out of my peripheral vision, I see Four shove the door open and walk out. Apparently this fight isn't interesting enough for him. Or maybe he's going to figure out why everything's spinning like a top, and I don't blame him; I want to know the answer too.

  Veronica Roth

  Fighting, Doors, Interesting

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.72, HarperCollins UK

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• Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Ambition, Eye

  Song: 32 Flavors

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• I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some remarkable thigh muscles. And although I made a point of not checking out his rear view, my peripheral vision was having a very good day.” ~ Haven Travis on Hardy Cates

  Lisa Kleypas

  Good Day, Men, Views

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.71, St. Martin's Press

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• We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

  Alvin Toffler

  People, Vision, Experts

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• Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.

  Diane Ackerman

  Eye, Mirrors, Sight

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• To reach beyond what you are you must ignore the rules and fashions of the day. Or perhaps better yet cast them way out in your peripheral vision where you can still see them but only as a vague reference point. This doesn’t mean that all the rules are gone. It might mean that you adopt a far tighter code of conduct to ensure the necessary level of intensity and adventure.

  Peter Croft

  Fashion, Adventure, Mean

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• Hi." "Hi." I shrug, as though to say "Whatever." In my peripheral vision I can see Magnus exhale. He looks a teeny bit nervous. "So." "So." I can play this game too. "Poppy." "Poppy. I mean, Magnus." I scowl. He caught me out.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mean, Games, Play

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• I've never done it before. Sometimes it's tough. I don't have any peripheral vision.

  Ryan O'Marra

  Vision, Done, Tough

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• Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, Vision, Noses

  Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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