#sighted

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Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it.


Mitch Albom


#human-beings #potential #shortsightedness #society #truth

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.


David Fincher


#great #hollywood #i #shortsighted #stupid

It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.


Mel Martinez


#education #future #generation #priority #shortsighted

The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.


Greg Ginn


#biggest #business #disappointment #number #people

A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all." The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism. I remember that dinner table with extraordinary vividness even now. My dear wife's sweet anxious face peering at me from under the pink lampshade, the white cloth with it silver and glass table furniture—for in those days even philosophical writers had luxuries—the crimson-purple wine in my glass, are photographically distinct. At the end of it I sat, tempering nuts with a cigarette, regretting Ogilvy's rashness, and denouncing the shortsighted timidity of the Martians. So some respectable dodo in the Mauritius might have lorded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of that shipful of pitiless sailors in want of animal food. "We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear.


H.G. Wells


#dodos #extinction #foreshadowing #overconfidence #shortsightedness

Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.


Bobby Flay


#believed #better #continues #could #days

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.


Dalai Lama


#come #country #democratic #democratic country #generally

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.


Ian Somerhalder


#destroyed #habitat #honest #important #important things

I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.


Terry Brooks


#another #away #been #boy #come

Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.


James T. Walsh


#before #bring #bringing #chaos #done