Big Books of 2026

Myopic Quotes

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: above-oneself, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, arrogance, arrogant, bigheaded, bigoted, bigotry, blinkered, close-minded, cocksure, cocky, complacent, conceit, conceited, conservative, danger, dangerous, dyed-in-the-wool, full-of-oneself, funny, hidebound, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, illiberal, inflexible, insular, intolerant, inward-looking, irritate, irritating, irritation, joke, jokes, mean-spirited, myopic, narrow-minded, parochial, petty, pleased-with-oneself, prejudiced, provincial, puffed-up, satire, self-important, self-satisfied, set-in-one-s-ways, shortsighted, small-minded, small-town, smug, too-big-for-one-s-boots, too-big-for-one-s-britches, uncharitable, unimaginative, vain, vainglorious, vanity
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: belief, comprehension, comprehensive, conceive, existence, grasp, hands, immense, immensity, knowledge, life, limitations, limited, living, myopic, ocean, perception, point-of-view, short-sighted, understanding, water, wisdom
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: blind, blinded, design, god, majestic, majesty, mediocre, mediocrity, myopic, perception, shortsighted, shortsightedness, vision
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: argue, belief, bullheaded, consequence, consequences, conviction, convinced, debate, electricity, fixated, ignorance, ignorant, illogical, lesson, myopic, obstinate, outcome, plead, socket, solution, solve, stubborn, stubbornness, surrender, tunnel-vision, unbending, understanding
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Benjamin P. Hardy
“As a species, we haven’t evolved to plan 20 years into the future. As a rule, our decision-making is myopic, shortsighted, and lacks imagination. We’re heavily incentivized to seek rewards in the present, which can greatly cost our long-term Future Selves.

[If you don't] think and strategize long term, [you'll be distracted by the short-term.]
You’ll be caught up by endless distractions throughout your day.
Your decisions will be myopic.
You’ll cost your Future Self greatly, putting them deeper in debt in all ways.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation
tags: distracted, distraction, distractions, myopic, short-term, unfocused, unfocused-mind
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“If I see only my bias, I have surrendered to a single myopic lens through which to view the world. If I dare to surrender my bias, I will spend the rest of my life seeing the world and throwing away lenses.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: bias, biased, clarity, life, limited, living, myopic, opinion, perspective, point-of-view, surrender, viewpoint, vision, world
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Five of the most dangerous words I know: ‘What’s in it for me?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: belief, danger, dangerous, ego, egocentric, greed, greedy, myopic, opinion, perspective, self-centered, self-focused, selfish, selfishness, words
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Lisa Kemmerer
“Many social justice activists--many feminists--continue to work against one form of oppression while feeding the flames of another, without noticing that the blow torch behind the flames must be tuned off before we can have any hope of putting out the resultant fires.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice
tags: activism, feminism, feminist, feminists, intersectionality, myopic, oppression, racism, social-justice, speciesism
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Jill Alexander Essbaum
“Dim mirror above, reflect more brightly upon us all.
From here, I see nothing but myself
and the face of me is trembling.”
― Jill Alexander Essbaum, Heaven
tags: heaven, jill-alexander-essbaum, myopic, poetry, reflection, sad
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“The writer overthinks by necessity, collecting and complicating small details, while the tournament golfer needs to be simple, myopic, fixated on one detail at a time.”
― Tom Coyne, Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros
tags: complicate, detail, myopic, overthink, simple
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“My myopic vision shackles my soul to the misery of small ideas.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: disappointment, dreams, myopic, pain, shackles, soul, vision
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“Hotheaded myopic leaders are rarely entertaining to watch. They're a train wreck away from causing chaos - for everyone.”
― Sasha Laghonh
tags: bad-decisions, business, chaos, employees, hotheaded, leaders, mistrust, myopic, trouble, work-culture
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