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Quotes About Seeing

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.
~ Lois Lowry
As a Tottenham player I'd love to see more signings. It would lift me seeing a top player come through the door.
~ Danny Rose
Una evidencia es que vivía entre hombres impíos "viendo y oyendo los hechos inicuos de ellos" y la maldad a su alrededor (2 P. 2:8) y, aun así, él mismo no era impío.
~ J.C. Ryle
The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
~ Jack Hanna
You know what just seeing him did to me." "I know. Lois, he just isn't that ominous. Evil, but not ominous. Sly, but not prescient. Once he is off balance, he will stay off balance, and fall heavily. And the law will gather him in.
~ John D. MacDonald
We lack trust in the present, this moment, this actual seeing, because our culture tells us to trust only the reported back, the publicly framed, the edited, the thing set in the clearly artistic or the clearly scientific angle of perspective.
~ John Fowles
Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.
~ Rupert Spira
No one can see God's face" (see Exodus 33:20). What do they mean when they say that no one can see God's face? They mean that we cannot see God as he is. We are not capable of this. We inevitably project our own fallenness onto God.
~ John Ortberg Jr.
To be taught to write or to speak — but what is the use of speaking if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think — nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.
~ John Ruskin
When invitation come, then I inquire just to see new place or seeing just the one sort of family, then not much interest.
~ Dalai Lama
With Betaworks' drive and resources now behind it, I'm confident that Instapaper has a very bright future. I'm looking forward to seeing what they can do.
~ Marco Arment
When most dullards hear the words 'the theater,' they envision a twelve-screen multiplex where disaster porn entertains the culturally witless for 90 minutes at a time. Pfaugh. The word 'theater' has grandeur. Power. Back to its ancient Grecian origins, it means 'the seeing place.' A stage upon which actors and actresses use fiction to show us truths.
~ Mark Waid
On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.
~ Martin Amis
I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.
~ Mary Stewart
Writing, then, is a kind of seeing. A way to see your insecurities more clearly. A way to shine a light on doubts and dreams and realise what they are actually about. It can dissolve a whole puddle of worries in the bright light of truth.
~ Matt Haig
As a writer of worship songs, I have a hunger to write deep songs of passionate reverence to God. Yet I'm aware I cannot sing before I have seen. All worship is a response to a revelation--it's only as we breathe in more of the wonders of God that we can breathe out a fuller response to Him....the key to a life of passionate and powerful worship comes from seeing God.
~ Matt Redman
The perception of forms, understood very broadly as structure, grouping, or configuration should be considered our spontaneous way of seeing.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Hunger also changes the world—when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Listening leads us more inside ourselves whereas seeing leads us more outside—the work of seeing itself, that is. And, therefore, we will be far more blessed with eternal life by the power of listening than by the power of sight. The act of listening allows me to hear the eternal Word spoken with me, whereas sight leads me astray, to what is outside myself. In listening, I suffer (or allow); in seeing, I work.
~ Meister Eckhart
Does form result from seeing unform repeatedly?
~ Mina Loy
None so deaf as those that will not hear; none so blind as those that will not see.
~ Nancy Holder
Stop looking for signs. Signs follow; they do not precede. Begin to reverse the statement, "Seeing is believing," to "Believing is seeing." Start now to believe, not with the wavering confidence based on deceptive external evidence but with an undaunted confidence based on the immutable law that you can be that which you desire to be. You will find that you are not a victim of fate but a victim of faith (your own).
~ Neville Goddard
I have seen God, as you have," he added after a time. "I have met him, and the meeting has filled my soul with horror." The old woman was quite hidden from him in the darkness. But he heard her say in a low, almost toneless voice: "There is no joy in seeing God.
~ Par Lagerkvist
Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
~ Deuteronomy 29:4