Tunnel Vision Quotes

• To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

  Chris Evert

  Selfish, Tunnels, Tennis

  "Billie Jean King and Chris Evert reminisce about tennis careers". Interview with Liz Clarke, www.washingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.

  Simon Sinek

  Acceptance, Tunnels, Vision

  "Failure Is An Option: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.

  Johnny Galecki

  Fall, Passion, Tunnels

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• Tunnel vision can kill creativity.

  Ami Vitale

  Creativity, Tunnels, Vision

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• Learn to see the big picture. Often times we get tunnel vision and lose sight of the big picture and what we're really trying to accomplish.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Tunnels

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• People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

  Felix Dennis

  Thinking, Tunnels, People

  "Dennis the menace" by Michael Pilgrim, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2002.

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• When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it.

  Nicola Peltz

  Passion, Thinking, Tunnels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are so many aspects to the sport. It never gets boring because you always do something different.

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Sports, Different, Boring

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• When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.

  Nick Cassavetes

  Children, Tunnels, Sick

  Interview with Scott B., www.ign.com. February 14, 2002.

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• For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.

  John Zorn

  Tunnels, Years, People

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• Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.

  Adrienne Rich

  Girl, Men, Thinking

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I started going blind and my optic nerves of my eye started giving me tunnel vision. I also started fainting a bit and struggling to think. I felt a lot of pressure in my head all the time. That was when it got too much. I'm in a very, very fortunate position now where I've had it taken out once. And now it's back I'm being monitored. I think people at home should be checked for this.

  John Newman

  Struggle, Taken, Home

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.

  Donna VanLiere

  Dream, Depressing, Tunnels

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• We often engage the defense mechanism of tunnel vision, just to keep ourselves focused on our daily lives. This makes us terribly jaded in our perception of what is really around us.

  Vera Nazarian

  Tunnels, Perception, Vision

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• I guess when you're young you have tunnel vision.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Tunnels, Vision, Young

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get tunnel vision and think this feeling will last forever. It will not.

  Jewel

  Thinking, Tunnels, Forever

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.

  Steve Jobs

  Giving Up, Real, Tunnels

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• I've learned that if I only put my mind to one thing that I can get tunnel vision. Then I may not be as open to other opportunities because I'm so focused on one thing. I think what's worked better for me personally is I have three goals every day: be nice, work hard and make friends. Those are my daily goals, and I feel like those are the things that create opportunity and creating connections that will then lead to other things that I may not have planned for otherwise.

  Gigi Hadid

  Nice, Hard Work, Opportunity

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Drivers don't always see the (flashing) lights. You can't get tunnel vision. You've got to look everywhere, even when your adrenaline is going.

  Sixto Rodriguez

  Tunnels, Light, Vision

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• Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery.

  Nolan Ryan

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

  Nolan Ryan, Skip Bayless, Tom House (1991). “Nolan Ryan's Pitcher's Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• She often had to remind herself that she couldn't do everything alone. She wasn't always the best person for the job. Sometimes she got tunnel vision and forgot about what other people needed.

  Rick Riordan

  Jobs, Tunnels, People

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• I naturally gravitate toward the big picture which isn't necessarily advantageous when you go on to a career in research because successful researchers usually choose a pretty narrow channel. So having tunnel vision actually helps you stay where you are supposed to stay. The big picture in medical care was looking at the underlying causes of all of this pathology. I really wanted to do something about that and play a meaningful role in changing the trajectory of people's lives and their health and by changing their health, changing the quality of their lives.

  David Katz

  Meaningful, Successful, Vision

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It takes a lot of time to be a good junkie or alcoholic - you spend hours getting the necessary supplies, then imbibing, then recovering, rinse and repeat. That's like eighteen hours of a day. And assuming you get out of that lifestyle before it macerates your heart, you have that Junkie Tunnel Vision, except now you get to use it for something positive: you know how to work tirelessly for one thing. Instead of using that tunnel vision to get high, I use it to make art.

  Joshua Mohr

  Art, Tunnels, Vision

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Michael Roberts is a great rider and a great tactician; he was always using his brain in a race. His determination to become champion jockey was unswerving. He worked night and day, day and night to do it. You must have tunnel vision to become champion jockey: you must almost block everything else out, and he did that perfectly.

  Steve Cauthen

  Determination, Block, Night

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• I think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements from all around it and not to maintain this kind of rigid myopic kind of tunnel vision, in a sense, trying to maintain a certain kind of purity, or whatever.

  David Sanborn

  Thinking, Tunnels, Creative

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