Limited Vision Quotes

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

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

Small minds can never handle great themes.

I had always heard that Mitch McConnell was a master legislator and a true loyalist to this institution. But in the 18 months I've been in the Senate, what I've seen is an astonishingly limited vision for what the Senate can and should accomplish. What a waste.

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

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.

Future generations will look back at the beginning of the 21st century and marvel that intelligent people actually tried to stop biomedical progress just to protect their limited vision of human nature.

I had never made any plans beyond basketball.

This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power..

I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

History shows you prospects by starlight, or at best by the waning moon.

The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

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.

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.