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.
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.
I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.
Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own.
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
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