I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.
Marie Louise
MistakesPastI AmBlindMovement
We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.
Ilyasah Shabazz
SchoolPeopleBlackThinkBlindOld
Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy.
Martha Beck
LearningIdeasBlindInformationNew
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
ManBlindSeeHonestTo Be Honest
I think I'm sort of blind to genre. As long as it has a sort of honesty about it, which I think you'll hear in whatever music you respond to, then I think it doesn't need to be called anything particularly.
Lianne La Havas
MusicHonestyThinkBlindLongYou
Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.
Johannes Tauler
BlindSelfIgnorantWithinOwnUs
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
Camille Paglia
PowerChildrenLawSocietyBlind
Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.
Li Keqiang
NatureEnvironmentalBlindProblem
One of the worries about a presidency is that everybody tells you yes. Nobody helps you figure out where your blind spots are.
John Dickerson
BlindYouNobodyYesOutPresidency
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
D. H. Lawrence
GodHumorManPerformanceBlind
I remember I had to play a blind person once, and I did this stupid thing with my eyes, and I knew the minute I started it I'd made a mistake.
Kit Harington
EyesMistakeStupidBlindRemember
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
John Milton
BlindBearMiserableBlindnessAble
I remember films I made at university, which are unbelievably pretentious. Poetry that I'd written that I delivered to camera, against a Venetian blind, strong shadows, looking slightly off-camera.
Julian Barratt
PoetryLookingStrongBlindCamera
One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind?
Robert Gottlieb
WorkGoodDeterminationPeopleBlind
Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.
Herb Kohl
PowerJusticeTrustBlindStandYou
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Jefferson Davis
DayWarNightBlindMadYears
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
Gore Vidal
EyeBlindWashingtonBlind Eye
Were you a merchant, would you settle yourself in a rich or poor neighborhood? You would not be so blind as to locate yourself among persons who would not be able to purchase your goods. So with nations with whom we trade.
John Tyler
YourselfRichBlindYouSettlePoor
About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.
Ernie Pyle
AngryBeeBlindWaveGrindNew
I visited an asylum to observe expressions of the mentally disturbed and to get my body language right for the blind girl's role. I visited the blind school, read the autobiography of Helen Keller, and watched a number of films from 'Scent of a Woman' to 'Anurag,' 'Fanaa' and 'Black.'
Sriti Jha
GirlWomanSchoolBlindLanguage
People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
DeathPeopleBlindDeafBecomeSee
The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.
Sienna Miller
GreatEyeBlindLongTurnGet
Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.
Simon Mainwaring
LifeExperienceEyeBlindAmerica
I hooked up everybody in Sidney, including one guy who was blind.
Dave Willis
BlindUpGuyWhoEverybodyHooked
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