Tunnel Vision Quotes - Page 2

• It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.

  Tom Glavine

  Tunnels, Giving, Vision

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• I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.

  Evelyn Ashford

  Tunnels, Vision, Time For A Change

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• There are so many aspects to the sport. It never gets boring because you always do something different. Maybe you train really hard on a sport climbing and get tunnel vision for a while, but as soon as you burn out a bit, you concentrate on another aspect, like traveling. You see the world through the vehicle of climbing.

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Sports, Tunnels, Climbing

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• A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions. The textures. The flavours. The smells. They jump out at me. When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.

  Robert M. Parker, Jr.

  Moving, Wine, Kids

  "Vintage year? Not till the Nose says so". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. Novemebr 19, 2000.

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• Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the first thing that comes into their heads which is usually determined by what others are doing at the same time.

  James A.C. Brown

  Tunnels, People, Worry

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• I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

  Edward Norton

  Tunnels, Vision, Pieces

  Interview with Richard Jobson, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2007.

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• Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Tunnels, Vision, Dogmatism

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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• My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

  Joshua Mohr

  Tunnels, Vision, Work Day

  Source: therumpus.net

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• extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Stress, Tunnels, Vision

  Malcolm Gladwell (2006). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.168, Penguin UK

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• At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Tunnels, Vision, Musician

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• A lot of people don't understand the building phase. They don't have the blueprint, but we do. With us having the blueprint and knowing what we want to build, it's not how it's supposed to be built, but what we want to build. I think it makes everything easy for us to stay focus and have that tunnel vision.

  B.J. The Chicago Kid

  Thinking, Knowing, Tunnels

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Sometimes our tunnel vision is limited to what we see outside our window. Until racial injustice becomes personal then I don't think it moves us in our gut.

  Shane Claiborne

  Moving, Thinking, Tunnels

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• The main thing is to win. You just try to keep your tunnel vision on to get the team the win.

  Jennie Finch

  Team, Winning, Tunnels

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• I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.

  Lin Shaye

  Tunnels, Vision, Together

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• Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose.

  Charles Kimball

  Mistake, Tunnels, Historical

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• Let's face it: Most companies in most industries have a kind of tunnel vision. They chase the same opportunities that everyone else is chasing, they miss the same opportunities that everyone else is missing. It's the companies that see a different game that win big. The most important question for innovators today is: What do you see that the competition doesn't see?

  Bill Taylor

  Business, Winning, Opportunity

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