Best Short Sighted Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.”

Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“The depth of the hole that we’re in is too often based on the size of our shovel, the frequency with which we use it, and the fact that we’ve yet to discard it.”

Choices Stupid Foolish Decisions Digging Short Sighted Hole Shovel

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Might I remind us that taking dirt out of the hole that we’re standing in and putting it back in that same hole both requires a similar degree of effort. But not digging it out in the first place may require the greatest effort of all.”

Wisdom Choices Fool Foolish Decisions Digging Short Sighted Hole

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Ignorance Destruction Ignorant Insane Conclusion Insanity Destroying Irrational End Destroy Illogical Choosing Short Sighted Chose Conclude Preposterous

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Who will be there to mentor those who follow us if we crawl into a dark place and hide, denying who and what we are/ How short-sighted and exceedingly selfish!”

Selfish Mentor Hide Short Sighted Denying Crawl Exceedingly Dark Place Follow Us

Book:Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

Source: Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

“Nickel-and-diming people can cost you a pretty penny.”

Short Sighted Small Mindedness Unscrupulous Short Sightedness Pennywise Nickel And Dimed Cost Of Doing Business

Book:Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide

Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide

“One-day-at-a-time rationalism risks restricting its analysis to the immediate implications of each issue as it arises, missing the wider implications of a decision that may have merit as regards the issue immediately at hand, considered in isolation, but which can be disastrous in terms of the ignored longer-term repercussions.”

Foolishness Repercussions Short Sighted Hidden Agenda Long Game

Book:Intellectuals and Society

Source: Intellectuals and Society

“Our conviction that God made a mistake is shaped by our inability to see the utterly ingenious purpose that lays behind His design. And we don’t see that purpose because our focus is riveted on the effort to correct something that was never wrong.”

God Wisdom Purpose Mistake Identity Ingenious Self Understanding Short Sighted Correct Pronouns

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“So study evermore is overshot. While it doth study to have what it would, It doth forget to do the thing it should; And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, ’Tis won as towns with fire—so won, so lost.”

Reading Short Sighted

Book:Love's Labour's Lost

Source: Love's Labour's Lost

“The mark of a short-sighted goal is that it is solely designed to achieve whatever needs to be achieved as a means of achieving the goal after that. Therefore, its destination is the next step, not the next horizon.”

Vision Determination Goals Horizon Fortitude Visionary Short Sighted

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”

Done Home Would Be Law Order Fighting Effort Lays Chaos Soldier Missions Terrorism Accomplished Regions Troops Law And Order Valiant Semblance Short Sighted Timetables Fighting Terrorism

Author:James T. Walsh

“It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.”

Seems Age Christian Desire Artist Culture Christianity Generations Fashion Stupid Late Picks Tradition Oneself Relevant Secular Short Sighted Unchristian

Author:Calvin Seerveld

“The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions.”

Term Dollars Advertising Promotion Short Term Creeks Opportunist Short Sighted

Author:David Ogilvy

“Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail. Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace.”

Men Love Persons Character Hands Age Humanity Evil Found Strong Nations Justice Common Quality Mankind Weak Uplifting Lazy Righteousness Temper Daring Peace Love Short Sighted Bad Character Love Wisdom

Book:Bully!

Source: Bully!

“Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.”

Ifs Men Country Beautiful Half Greed Our Country Selfishness Charm Wilderness Reckless Wild Things Extermination Short Sighted Wildlife Conservation

Book:The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places

Source: The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places

“Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war itself. No matter the surge of momentary machismo -- as gratifying as it may be for some -- it's short-sighted and wrong to simply go it alone.”

May War Matter Winning Harder Complexes Burden Diplomacy Momentary Sustaining Follow Through Short Sighted Machismo

Author:Dick Gephardt

“I am not surprised that men who put their trust in an atom should fail in their slightest attempts to plumb truth, that with such limited vision they cannot see beyond the sky and the stars to God Himself; that since they cannot discern the superiority of what is spiritual or the dignity of man's soul, they are even more unaware how hard it is to satisfy, how the whole earth is unworthy of it, how urgently it needs a supremely perfect being, who is God, and how indispensable to it is a religion which will lead it towards God and provide a sure pledge of Him.”

Men Should Heaven Stars Effort Atoms Discovering Contemplating Smallest Short Sighted Discovering The Truth

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.”

People World Should Looks Country Sometimes Democracy Rights Sacrifice West China Tendencies Efficient Criticise Short Sighted Authoritarian Government

Author:Ai Weiwei

“To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.”

Men Humans Made Self Use Human Beings Stupid Self Improvement Capacity Tools Regard Instruments Improvement Makers Autonomy Binding Initiation Short Sighted

Book:Manhood of humanity

Source: Manhood of humanity

“I shall not be deterred by people who don't see where the future of Africa lies. It is the short-sighted people who put their opinions in writing. They don't understand that the future of all countries lies in processing.”

People Writing Country Lying Opinion Processing Short Sighted

Author:Yoweri Museveni

“All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.”

Persons Found Wish Environment Produce Cost Waste Trade Average Profit Ministry Greedy Hazards Average Person Investigating Short Sighted

Book:The Windup Girl

Source: The Windup Girl

“The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitiousfabricated, on the one hand, by short-sighted religious people who confound a certain branch of science, theology, with religion; and, on the other, by equally short-sighted scientific people who forget that science takes for its province only that which is susceptible of clear intellectual comprehension; and that, outside the boundaries of that province, they must be content with imagination, with hope, and with ignorance”

People Hands Certain Imagination Religious Forget Clear Ignorance Intellectual Boundaries Theology Branches Science And Religion Comprehension Provinces Susceptible Antagonism Short Sighted

Book:Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions

Source: Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions

“The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war entered the scene and we are still suffering the consequences of a man-driven, self-serving, short-sighted environment.”

“The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.”

Firsts Art Invention Commerce Cunning Short Sighted

Author:John Philpot Curran

“The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.”

Men Ideas Use Divine Majority Measuring Omnipotence Short Sighted Yardsticks

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.”

Source: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]

“I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded in reality, and understanding of a sort of chaos theory...[that is to say] it needs to be part good intention, part political intelligence, and part political savvy and knowledge of international interests and national burdens. President Obama has been extremely short-sighted in this sense, and if he fails, it will be a tragic blow for peaceniks and multilateralists the world over, and a manna from heaven for the Republican party.”

“Deep down, everything boils down ("au fond tout se ramène", Fr.) to the following simple question; Do we really want justice and the realization in this world of higher principles, or else do we want to serve selfish, short-sighted (à courte vue", Fr.) interests, which, when all is said and done, are also prejudicial (or detrimental, or harmful) to those very same that pursue them?”

World Want Said Done Interest Justice Simple Principles This World Higher Following Selfish Pursue Realization Deep Down Said And Done Detrimental Rams Short Sighted

Author:African Spir

“The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.”

Children Littles Play Imagination Principles Fantasy Creative Serious Birth Treats Accounts Debt Characteristics Inconsistent Creative Work Memories Dreams Reflections Short Sighted Serious Work

Book:Psychological Types

Source: Psychological Types

“What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be short sighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.”

Knows Looks Mean Doe Running Able Night Needed Lovers Moon Rose Dawn Outcomes Impatience Short Sighted Patience And Love Crescent Patience Love Crescent Moon

Author:Shams Tabrizi

“Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those responsible for carrying them out the whyfor and wherefor of the orders? Where employees come in daily and hourly contact with the public, surely it is important that care be taken to fit them to reply intelligently to courteous questions. ""Because them are orders"" isn't a satisfying reply-even less satisfactory to the management than to the public.”

Stills Important Care Pain Order Taken Habit Fit Responsible Management Contact Employee Executives Satisfying Indulge Indulge In Courteous Short Sighted

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."”

Thinking Men Firsts Steps Mankind Fool Moon Giants Soil Leap Astronaut Armstrong Small Steps Short Sighted

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Get enough exercise and sleep: Sounds trivial, but it's not. You may have the urge to work 24/7, to skip the gym and to stay up late to get a few more things done. That's short-sighted. Exercise and sleep are critical to having the physical and mental energy necessary to meet a challenge.”

May Done Enough Energy Sound Challenges Sleep Exercise Late Critical Urges Gym Things Done Skip Short Sighted

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance.”

Persons Two Eye Purpose Voice Attention Air Ignorance Judging Mouths Blind Lips Appearance Wide Neglect Thick Prominent Disgusted Short Sighted

Book:Horace Walpole: Memoirs and Portraits

Source: Horace Walpole: Memoirs and Portraits

“I was trouble - and always in trouble. Aged eight I still couldn't read. In fact, I was dyslexic and short-sighted. Despite sitting at the front of the class, I couldn't read the blackboard. Only after a couple of terms did anyone think to have my eyes tested. Even when I could see, the letters and numbers made no sense at all.”

Thinking Made Stills Facts Eye Term Numbers Class Trouble Fronts Couple Sitting Letters Eight Despite Tested Dyslexic Short Sighted Blackboard

Book:Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography

Source: Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography

“How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny, to obey a dictator? How can we expect democracy when we have reared slaves? Real freedom begins at the beginning of life, not at the adult stage. These people who have been diminished in their powers, made short-sighted, devitalized by mental fatigue, whose bodies have become distorted, whose wills have been broken by elders who say: "your will must disappear and mine prevail!"-how can we expect them, when school-life is finished, to accept and use the rights of freedom?”

“We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird”

Firsts Art Bigs Term Cutting Economic Essentials Bird Crisis Objectives Budgets Funding Economic Crisis Short Sighted Budget Cuts Big Bird

Author:Julia Stiles

“Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on preparing for the rare, but foreseeable and potentially catastrophic disaster. It's another form of triage, how much we invest in preparing for that, a very important question for public policy. We are a short-sighted species.”

Important Eye Form Turns Focus Policy Resources Species Disaster Day To Day Preparing Public Policy Important Questions Short Sighted Triage

Author:Sheri Fink

“If I had to guess what the new Etch-A-Sketch picture is going to be like, it's going to be considerably less to the right. Romney has backed himself into a couple of corners that I don't think will serve him well in the general election, the main one being very harsh stands on immigration, which I think are not only short-sighted but to my mind immoral.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Wells Couple Election Corners Immigration Harsh Immoral Romney Short Sighted General Elections Etch A Sketch

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Here is the thing: I have seen several times that anti-Russian cards are being played during domestic campaigns in the United States. I find this approach very short-sighted.”

States United United States Approach Campaigns Cards Short Sighted Being Played

Author:Vladimir Putin

“It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for president that has been offered by the Republican party. Such people seem to be motivated only by short-sighted greed, ignorance, fear and hatred.”

People Humans Has Beens Seems Causes President Party Race Ignorance Republican Members Hatred Vote Shame Species Greed Human Race Candidates Motivated Republican Party Short Sighted

Author:Allen W. Wood

“It's very short-sighted and even dangerous to be engaging in the kind of demagogic rhetoric that Donald has about Muslims.”

Kind Dangerous Rhetoric Engaging Short Sighted

Author:Hillary Clinton

“We're going to go to the moon. We're going to go on to Mars. We're going to set up a base on the moon. OK, but no money to pay for it, nothing in the budget for it. And so the decision made at that time was to cancel the whole shuttle program to save money, which I think was very, very short sighted.”

Thinking Made Whole Decision Pay Goes On Moon Program Budgets Mars No Money Saving Money Decisions Made Short Sighted Shuttle Program

Author:John Glenn

“If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run (not only short-sighted interest), you can change public opinion.”

Ifs Long Running Interest Levels Vision Opinion Committed Long Runs Public Opinion Grassroots Short Sighted

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“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.”

Thinking Littles Country Sometimes Next Bits Politician Little Bit Vote Democratic Short Sighted Democratic Country

Author:Dalai Lama

“The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.”

Term Challenges Vision Failing Economic Models Profound Deficit Rapids Slogans Reduction Austerity Short Sighted Muddle Economic Models

Author:Frances O'Grady

“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.”

World Important States America United United States Seeing Honest Security Ocean Important Things Threat Destroyed Being Honest United States Of America National Security Habitat Short Sighted

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.”

“Strange how short-sighted being invisible can make you.”

Strange Invisible Short Sighted

Author:J. K. Rowling

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