Michael Crichton Quotes

People don't see much further than their noses.

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

I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

We have a very narrow view of what is going on.

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

The trouble with you, Eisenhower, is that you're too small minded.

He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic - to be focused on one or two things - which has some strengths as well as weaknesses.

It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

As a rule, [populism] is done for the sake of political expediency by those who do not care about the consequences, who do not think even one step ahead, who do not want to think and do not intend to honour their commitments.

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

I think there's always a lesson you can learn from any situation.

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.

I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.

Present thinking people kill the future.

There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.