there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.” There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys...

You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out...

Maybe you shake your head, but let me learn a lesson right now: plenty knowledge is in this world. Enough knowledge that you can pick and refuse. And if you want, you can refuse to...

I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they’re seeing, what they’re envisioning, and what their intention is.

A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players.

The amorous shepherd has lost his staff,And his sheep are straying on the hillside,And he didn’t even play the flute he brought to play because he was thinking so much.No one came to him or...

He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he’s not dead.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

I’m not always up to date on everything that’s going on, but I am somewhat informed. I listen to NPR. And I actually watch Fox News, because I believe, if you just listen to the...

The idea of being on TV 24 hours a day and people seeing the real me… No.

The fault in our stars is the inability to see that the world falls in love with fantasy, fairytales and magic in movies. Even religion asks us to believe in the most unlikely of situations....

I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist...

Taking personal responsibility is not about being “responsible” — it is about seeing your truth and evolving.

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

I’m attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

I’ve always had this nightmare of going back to the Kingdome and seeing myself waddle in bald, overweight, with a big belly hanging over my belt, and I just imagine people going, ‘That’s Steve Largent?’

I don’t know what understanding myself is. I don’t look inside.I don’t believe I exist behind myself.

What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this valley, but to keep myself open to their meanings, which is to try to...

I like seeing people when they can’t see me.

Though my eyes cannot see beyond what I can see, I can see beyond what I cannot see

[…] with the protecting sky in all its splendour and the golden sun blazing forth against a backdrop of crystalline blue, to use the inspired words of a television reporter[…].

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

Every experience is seen through your mind’s eye, so when you change your mind you change your entire world.

Why?” asked my master Caeiro.

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual...

Seeing is always an act of courage.

Reality depends a great deal upon one believing what he sees—or seeing what he believes. Either way.

Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.

I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.

Tremendously meaningful outreach begins with how you choose to see the world.

We’re so used to just glancing at the environment through the eyes of the past that we’re frequently not certain if we are in fact paying attention or if we merely think that we’re paying...

The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one...

The scientist is also a composer… You could think of science as discovering one particular thing – a supernova or whatever. You could also think of it as discovering this whole new way of seeing...

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

man” goes walking with his ideas, false and foreign,And his steps go with the ancient system that makes legs walk.I see him from a distance without any opinion at all.How perfect that he is in...

the tree with the lights in it.” It was for this tree I searched through the peach orchards of summer, in the forests of fall and down winter and spring for years. Then one day...

To see in the dark, close your eyes.

when we conceive an idea, we don’t just look anymore but we see. People without a well defined vision look; men with a focused purpose look and they see.

I like the mystery of seeing someone like Mickey Rourke do his thing. I don’t know how he does it, but I’m glad he does it.

Initial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that was definitely a case of us not seeing the forest for the trees...