Shortsighted Quotes (10 quotes)

“In a relationship, people may be inhabited by discordant personalities. For that reason, it might be convenient for partners if one of both could sometimes be a little hard of hearing, or the other a bit shortsighted. ("Mutual understanding")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: convenient, discordant, hard-of-hearing, mutual-understanding, partners, personalities, relationship, shortsighted

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“How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.”
― Christiaan Huygens, Cosmotheoros: or, conjectures concerning the inhabitants of the planets

tags: ambition, earth, extrasolar-planets, kings, life, masters, navigation, people, pitiful, planets, princes, reflection, sacrifice, shortsighted, space, theatre, war

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“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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“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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“If you were to put all of the world’s pain in one fifty-five gallon drum, it would look silly next to the mountains of gold and silver found in each moment with God. Our problem is that we rarely see past the drum – The Dance of the Dead”
― Ted Dekker, When Heaven Weeps

tags: happiness, pain, relationship-with-god, shortsighted

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“Eating seeds is at times a sign of shortsightedness or impatience.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: delayed-gratification, impatience, impatient, instant-gratification, myopia, patience, patient, seeds, shortsighted, shortsightedness

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“The optometry industry profits immensely from most people’s blindness to the fact that civilization has made eye exercises a necessity for most people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: capitalism, civilization, eye-exercises, eyeglasses, farsighted, glasses, ignorance, myopia, optometry, shortsighted

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“I miss James Comey, in my surroundings, lately.”
― Petra Hermans, Voor een betere wereld

tags: shortsighted

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“Sometimes a solution gets rid of at most one problem, but causes, comes with, or leads to at least two problems.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: politics, problem, problem-solving, problems, ramifications, shortsighted, side-effects, solution, solutions, technology

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“Funny, in the arena, when I poured out those berries, I was only thinking of outsmarting the Gamemakers, not how my actions would reflect on the Capitol. But the Hunger Games are their weapon and you are not supposed to be able to defeat it. So now the Capitol will act as if they've been in control the whole time. As if they orchestrated the whole event, right down to the double suicide. But that will only work if I play along with them.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: credit, fear, intimidate, orchestrate, outsmart, plan, shortsighted

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