Thomas Dewar Quotes

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.

The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing inhibitions. The deep, emotional layers of our personality simply do not register the fact that the crooking of the finger to release a shot tears the entrails of another man.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a connection.

Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.

We see parts of each other, and we put them together. But if I want to see you in totality, you need to move away; we need space between us. Across the street, I can see all of you at once, but then I also see this huge vista of space surrounding you, coming in and compressing you.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

If your pictures are not good enough, it’s because you are not close enough.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

I think sometimes you need distance to reflect.

From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

No, but you can see it from here.

Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.

A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

Not everything I dislike should be destroyed, some of it should simply be moved farther away.

There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.