Short Sighted Quotes

• In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

  Tom Seaver

  Leadership, Sports, Baseball

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

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• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

  Lord Kelvin

  Silly, Creativity, Science

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• He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wall, Looks, Path

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• Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.

  James T. Walsh

  Home, Fighting, Order

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• The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.

  Greg Ginn

  Disappointment, Views, Numbers

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• So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

  Jay Inslee

  Jobs, Oil, Progress

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• We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.

  Mitch Albom

  Achievement, Should, Stretching

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.156, Broadway Books

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• The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Play, Imagination

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

  Ron Wyden

  Country, Thinking, Drug

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• Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!

  Edwin Drake

  Crazy, Mean, Technology

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• Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and, unfortunately, extremely pervasive.

  Naveen Jain

  Writing, Ideas, Giving Money

  "An Entrepreneurial Perspective on Philanthropy" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2016.

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• It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Medicine, Disease, Vegan

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1857). “Queen Mab, a philosophical poem, with notes. To which is added, A brief memoir of the author”, p.107

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• It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

  Maurice Nicoll

  Men, Glasses, Paper

  Maurice Nicoll (1973). “Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky”

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• If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run (not only short-sighted interest), you can change public opinion.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Running, Long, Vision

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Men, Omnipotence, Ideas

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• A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.

  David Foster

  Team, Boys, Ideas

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• I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Thinking, Littles

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• Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on preparing for the rare, but foreseeable and potentially catastrophic disaster. It's another form of triage, how much we invest in preparing for that, a very important question for public policy. We are a short-sighted species.

  Sheri Fink

  Eye, Focus, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.

  Bobby Flay

  Running, Get Better, Four

  "Bobby Flay Talks Career, Passion, and Food Network Stardom". Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2011.

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• What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool. Democratic politicians must appeal to these masses in order to be elected. Whoever is the best demagogue will win. Almost by necessity, then, democracy will lead to the perversion of truth, justice and beauty.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

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• The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

  John Philpot Curran

  Art, Firsts, Invention

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• The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war entered the scene and we are still suffering the consequences of a man-driven, self-serving, short-sighted environment.

  Louie Giglio

  War, Men, Garden

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• The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions.

  David Ogilvy

  Dollars, Advertising, Promotion

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• Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see this phenomenon only in terms of changing ideals of bodily appearance (such as slimness or youthfulness), or as solely brought about by the commodifying influence of advertising. We become responsible for the design of our own bodies, and in a certain sense noted above are forced to do so the more post-traditional the social contexts in which we move.

  Anthony Giddens

  Moving, Adoption, Design

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.107, John Wiley & Sons

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• I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.

  Jenny Eclair

  Glasses, Situation, Ifs

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