Anthony Hemingway Quotes

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

People don't see much further than their noses.

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

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.

I am a bit of a head-in-the-sand person as concerns things happening beyond the walls of my study. And I don't feel particularly guilty about that. I figure that my primary job is producing the very best stories I am capable of writing, and that is what I concentrate upon doing. That is within my control.

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

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

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that eye in the back of his head.

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.

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

She live in a mindset that I could never move to

I get into a rut, unable to yank my mind out of it.

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

Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.

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.

When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.

If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.

So, blind to Someone I must be.

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.