You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.
Interpretation
Being overly focused can cloud your judgment and perception.
This quote suggests that sometimes, having too much information or being overly critical can lead to confusion rather than clarity. It implies that the ability to perceive and understand situations often requires balance and restraint, rather than an overwhelming rush to observe everything at once.
In practice
In a leadership seminar discussing decision-making processes.
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.
The fancies of wine are authentic events.
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.
You can't afford to hop around and act like a kid when you have to get back on defense and worry about the other parts of the game. But at the end, when the buzzer sounds, you have the luxury of hopping around and looking foolish for a while.
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Lose your temper and you lose the fight.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
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