It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.
Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real
They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.
'The Goonies' is the one that everyone either remembers themselves or their children are seeing now.
What I remember thinking at that point, having gone through both the ups and downs of my first four years, and seeing the sea of people was, "What a remarkable country this is and how lucky am I that we live in a place where the son of a single mom, not born into any kind of fame or fortune, in a pretty remote state somehow can end up be in a position to - to make a difference. "
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what injures one injures all. To do evil i. e. , to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity.
Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing.
People have a hard time going to a club and seeing this business tool on stage that's wholly indicative of everything that rock is not. Rock is not about sitting in an office setting up documents, yet they see someone on stage doing that.
I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element spearately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly
Not seeing is half-believing.
I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before production, I see only its virtues.
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart and the agitations of the world. For this reason, she was fond of seeing great crowds, and large stretches of country, of reading about revolutions and wars, of looking at historical pictures--a class of efforts to which she had often gone so far as to forgive much bad painting for the sake of the subject.
Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
You can look at things all your life and not see them really. This ‘seeing’ is, in a way, a ‘not seeing,’ if you follow me. It is more of a search for something, in which, being blindfolded, you develop the tactile, the olfactory, the auditory senses —and thus see for the first time.
People learn more quickly by doing something or seeing something done.
Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.