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I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open. -- Kieran Culkin
Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open. -- Bernard Kerik
Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! -- Victoria Abril
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. -- Laurence Olivier
You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open. -- Jam Master Jay
He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end. -- Hugo Pratt
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. -- Samuel Palmer
Worst nightmares can also appear with your eyes open. -- Florence Welch
My eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do. -- Craig Stone
What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open, -- Jose Manuel Barroso
Keep your eyes open to all the needs you see around you. -- Caitlin Crosby
Inspiration is everywhere! I think you just have to have your eyes open. -- LeAnn Rimes
You need to have your eyes open because it's really scary what's happening. -- Zoe Leonard
The best way to dream is with your eyes open and feet moving -- Tony Gaskins
For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you. -- William S. Burroughs
Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting. -- Graham Sutherland
If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open. -- Henri Matisse
Poetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide. -- Johnny Tillotson
Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you can see can inspire you. -- Grace Coddington
The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open. -- Gregory David Roberts
The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open. -- Brian Herbert
But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open. -- Norton Juster
Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was! -- Jennifer Hudson
I've always been fond of the advice I once heard from Robert Frank, "Keep your eyes open." -- Michael Almereyda
I would love to meet my soul mate. I'm always kind of keeping my eyes open for somebody. -- Holly Madison
A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby. -- Alexandra Bracken
Keep your eyes open, take risks, and whenever possible, don't think of things the way everyone else does. -- Jon Daniels
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it. -- Laurence Sterne
Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff! -- Dr. Seuss
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open. -- Eva Gabrielsson
Life is full of lessons for the success-minded person who keeps his/her eyes open to what is going on. -- John Patrick Hickey
A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog. -- Earl Hamner, Jr.
I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time. -- Salman Rushdie
Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open. -- Mary Oliver
However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay. -- Scott Westerfeld
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. -- Thomas Merton
Little by little deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are. -- Bo Lozoff
I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me. -- Gloria Naylor
It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight. -- Shirley Jackson
Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open. -- Rian Johnson
Keep your eyes open. Make mistakes - because you will anyway - and remember that small stuff stinks but that it's also essential. -- Adam Sadowsky
The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open. -- Donald Berwick
My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open, because you never know what's going to come your way. -- Bobbi Brown
The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I keep my eyes open. I pay attention to how different types of people express their personal style, how they put their clothes together. -- Cam Newton
Keep your eyes open, Fireheart. Keep your ears pricked. Keep looking behind you. Because one day I'll find you, and then you'll be crowfood. -- Erin Hunter
Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew. -- Pablo Neruda
Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters. -- Charles Baudelaire
Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever). -- Wasif Ali Wasif
From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all the same, all the time. -- Rajneesh
Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake. -- Wallace Stegner
When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking. -- Alexander Elder
Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.' -- William S. Burroughs
Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'. -- Louis C. K.
To go somewhere where nobody knows you, and to keep your eyes open... That was a beautiful concept in terms of putting yourself in a place to be inspired. -- Peter Lindbergh
Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world. -- Jason Schwartzman
I want to be accessible to a certain type of person who wants to walk around with their eyes open, or at least is open to the idea of change. -- Thea Gilmore
All of the previously described techniques can be practiced with your eyes open and closed. Most people find that it is easier initially to practice meditation with their eyes closed. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Abundance is a direct reflection of your preparation to live abundantly. People who are ready for abundance keep their heads up, their eyes open and give thanks for everything they get. -- Iyanla Vanzant
You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind. -- Orson Scott Card
The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield. -- Oscar W. Firkins
Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed. -- Paulo Coelho
Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us. -- Victor Cherbuliez
Keep your eyes open. Look at the world without prejudice, pay attention to your sources, and decide for yourself where the truth lies. That is the greatness of the path I'm offering you. -- Javier Sierra
If you've got a good idea and you're willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it, keep your head up and eyes open because you don't know when opportunity will come knocking. -- Paula Deen
Life can be like a roller coaster with its ups and downs. What matters is whether you are keeping your eyes open or closed during the ride and who is next to you. -- Ana Ortega
Tennis is a funny game, and it takes a life-time of keeping one's eyes open on the circuit to have any chance of understanding the strange phenomena that exist in our exciting sport! -- Sania Mirza
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Ive just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it. -- Chiwetel Ejiofor
Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead. -- Bob Goff
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You never know what it's going to look like on the other side, but you'll see it eventually if you keep your eyes open. -- Miley Cyrus
There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear. -- Joanna Field
I had my young eyes opened by the impersonal blood and guts of news photography. I was running the gamut every low man on the totem pole runs - country clubs to mass murder. -- Burk Uzzle
Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I. -- Martha Beck
Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life. -- George Washington Carver
People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle. -- Paul Auster
I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves. These things are utterly common, and I've not seen one -- Annie Dillard
May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. -- Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
In an interview, last year in the journal Biotechnology Healthcare, Dr. Berwick said, â??The decision is not whether or not we will ration care â?? the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. -- Donald Berwick
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination, -- Sonia Sotomayor
Tension pulled my eyes open when her fingers traced a trail down my neck. Sensation blossomed, and I threw my head back and sucked in the air. Her arm slipped around my waist, catching me before I fell. -- Kim Harrison
Why do you think people close their eyes when they kiss? Think about it. In the real world, if you saw someone an-inch-and-a-half away, coming at you with their eyes open and their lips puckered, you'd scream. It's alarming. -- Paul Reiser
When does it happen?" "It already has," Calla replied. Her eyes opened and fixed on Blue. "And it hasn't yet. Time' circular, chicken. We use the same parts of it over and over. Some of us more than others. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I kept my eyes open on the ride home. Peeking over Lucas's shoulder, i watched the scenery fly by-and it was exhilarating, not frightening. I trusted him. I had since that first night, when i let him drive me home. -- Tammara Webber
Okay, well, let's do a little reenactment. I'm the gay-looking DiCaprio and you're Rose. You have to keep your eyes open and on my face, or you'll have to let me go and I'll turn into a huge gay Popsicle. -- P. C. Cast
It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut. -- Philip Stanhope
It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut. -- Philip Stanhope
Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't sit there and think or move into sleepy states of awareness, but move into high-powered states of attention. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I think a lot of people have had their eyes open, shocked that the team they thought they were on didn't exist, and that the games were not being played to win. I guess it's shocking to a lot of people. -- Rush Limbaugh
if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones. -- Norton Juster
I think a lot of people have had their eyes open, shocked that the team they thought they were on didn't exist, and that the games were not being played to win. I guess it's shocking to a lot of people. -- Rush Limbaugh
Can you hear me, Todd? There's an ambulance on its way. For a moment his eyes opened a little wider, and he seemed to be making an effort to concentrate on the face in front of himIt's Maxine, she saidRemember me? -- Clive Barker
...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that." -- Joseph Campbell
I know it's cheesy, but if you listen to the universe, it gives you pointers. I strongly believe if you keep your ears open and eyes open, your path will become clear. You just have to make sure you don't ignore it. -- Matthew James Thomas
Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much gravity on my heart. -- Sarah Ockler
My eyes opened, and the first thing I thought of when I could put thoughts together was I want to be in show business. Never wanted anything else. I used to sneak in the costume room at my nursery school and smell the costumes. -- Joan Rivers
I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration. -- Kevin Henkes
I think it's much better to have your eyes open, but on the other hand, of course it can do harm if you tell people look, there's all these terrible things you can do and then some idiot may go ahead and do it. -- Freeman Dyson
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I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities - and, most of all, I share humor with them. Then I keep my eyes open when they rehearse and perform, because you never know where the next stimulation comes from. -- George Cukor
The reviewers tear me apart. I bleed. I'm a favorite target. They go along for six months looking at movies, praying for rain, and then a new Sandra Dee movie comes out, and their eyes open, and they lick their lips. Before they've ever seen it. -- Sandra Dee
I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open. -- Daniel Defoe
I desperately miss my girls when I am working, and I often feel guilty, but also feel the journey I am on is for them too. When I am on my 16th hour of a day and can barely keep my eyes open, they drive me forward. -- Mika Brzezinski
A Leica camera is a camera we can keep both eyes open. You can look for the free eye that doesn't look to viewfinder and in all directions. It's like backwards - and sometimes also backwards, and you can look for the viewfinder and see your picture. -- Horst Faas
Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?" "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open! -- Margaret Weis
At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers... I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came. -- Violette Leduc
Life's a roller coaster. Best damn ride in the park. You don't close your eyes, hold on and wait for it to be over, babe. You keep your eyes open, lift your hands straight up in the air and enjoy the ride for as long as it lasts. -- Kristen Ashley
I am incredibly emotionally aware and connected with other people. You know, when you come see me live, you can see that different kind of connection and that connection with what I'm saying, and the things I'm singing about. So it really is about just keeping my eyes open. -- LeAnn Rimes
So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department. -- Dusty Baker
I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late. -- Sue Monk Kidd
All night, snow.Open the window,stretch my arms out.Keep my eyes openin the white, whipping wind.There are few cars on the highway.The river's frozen in places.In a city that never stops,I can hardly hear anything.For tonight, the city gives mewhat I need. -- Cordelia Jensen
Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because the call was irresistible despite being recognizable. They were moths who know what the light is, know what it will do to them. And come anyway. -- Glen Hirshberg
I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me. -- Clara Hughes

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