Seeing Quotes

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding.

Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong.

Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.

That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.

I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.

We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.

An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.

It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

Accomplishing the impossible is all about seeing the invisible.

Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.

Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.

My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

When the sun sets, candle starts seeing itself like the sun!

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece of art out of it.

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

When you are in the dark and you can't see anything, something is looking at you seeing everything

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.

Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.

The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.

There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it

The reality is that whatever you are looking for is, at the same time, looking for you. It all starts with believing before seeing.

The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.

I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.

As your governor, you’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.’

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

The one thing I take more joy in than anything else in the world is seeing young people develop

Cameras get in the way of seeing.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.