Myopic quotes:

Send

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that. -- Kitty Carlisle
Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies. -- Nancy Pearcey
I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town. -- Taylor Kitsch
In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals. -- Rick Perry
Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel. -- Joe Klein
Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia. -- Julie Taymor
With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television. -- Stephen Lang
A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves. -- Daniel H. Pink
I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably. -- Joan Cusack
The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius. -- Amy Lowell
How myopic it is to view His ministry as all crucifixion and no resurrection! -- Neal A. Maxwell
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating. -- Camille Paglia
I think people tend to be very myopic and they don't understand how their actions impact others. -- Jen Lancaster
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray. -- Hank Johnson
We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being. -- Karen Russell
We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on -- James Marsters
It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on. -- James Marsters
I like smaller films better. I don't know why. I think it's the intimacy and there's not this avalanche. It is an avalanche, but it's really myopic. It's really small. -- Channing Tatum
The unmistakable lesson is that such is the myopic zealotry of environmentalists like Obama that they would implement policies virtually guaranteed to harm our economy significantly, even when they offer no promise of appreciable environmental benefits. -- David Limbaugh
Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border. -- Shane Claiborne
People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being. I remember reading some Adrienne Rich quote where she talks about how important it was just to watch bubbles rise in a glass. -- Karen Russell
Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be. -- Jason Silva
I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able to write about balance, because I think there's something I want to try to get at. I'm trying to get at something about the experience of growing up or about families. -- Aimee Bender
Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus. -- Idina Menzel
I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves. -- Diego Rivera
--
The ideal audience the poet imagines consists of the beautiful who go to bed with him, the powerful who invite him to dinner and tell him secrets of state, and his fellow-poets. The actual audience he gets consists of myopic schoolteachers, pimply young men who eat in cafeterias, and his fellow-poets. This means, in fact, he writes for his fellow-poets. -- W. H. Auden
The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of the history of freedom. It is a part that tends to be obscured or ignored because of the myopic vision of many economists, who persist in modeling government as nothing more than a gigantic form of theft and income redistribution. -- Douglass North
As always, I wonder if I'll get through the winter. Then when winter is over, I wonder about the summer. But that's because the system decided which author shall be commercially successful. As I said, the most vicious of them all is The New York Times, because it pretends to be literary and impartial, and it's really this opinionated, myopic, stupid giant of incompetence. -- James Purdy
Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what the Lord calls coveting "the drop," while neglecting the "more weighty matters." (D&C 117:8) Myopic selfishness magnifies a mess of pottage and makes thirty pieces of silver look like a treasure trove. In our intense acquisitiveness, we forget Him who once said, "What is property unto me?" -- Neal A. Maxwell
I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic. -- Emma Donoghue
I think people tend to be very myopic and they dont understand how their actions impact others. -- Jen Lancaster
Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword. -- David Mitchell
Myopia, in more than ninety-five percent of cases, begins between five and ten years of age. It increases largely because the myopic eye is given a minus lens. -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Send