Eye Opening Quotes - Page 2

• I think the greatest gift actually acting is that I have a true fascination and love for people, and the way they are, and all the choices they made in life and all the different paths they took. I feel like acting gives me an opportunity to dig a little bit into that. That's great because it's eye-opening and it makes you an open person.

  Wes Bentley

  Eye, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that when you have somebody who really is kind of forced to see the world through someone else's eyes, I think it really is eye opening.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Eye, Thinking, World

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vice President Mike Pence's Speech at Grove City College, time.com. May 20, 2017.

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• Almost instantly [after my announcement of Parkinson's], I saw the first couple of days the coverage was about, you know, "Fox's Parkinson's, blah, blah, blah." Then, two days after that, I saw the coverage turn. It started to become, "Can young people get Parkinson's?" All of a sudden, the conversation turned to become about that. And that was one of the first eye-opening things.

  Michael J. Fox

  Couple, Eye, Two

  "Interview with Michael J. Fox". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• Whether advanced driver training helps drivers in the long term is one of those controversial and unresolved mysteries of the road, but my eye-opening experience at Bondurant raises the curious idea that we buy cars—for most people one of the most costly things they will ever own—with an underdeveloped sense of how to use them. This is true for many things, arguably, but not knowing what the F9 key does in Microsoft Word is less life-threatening than not knowing how to properly operate antilock brakes.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Eye, Keys, Microsoft Word

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• Any man that has had a mother, has a sister, wants to be a father will find this [movie Bad Moms] incredibly eye opening and hysterical and funny.

  Mila Kunis

  Mom, Mother, Father

  "Here's Mila Kunis and Kathryn Hahn's Advice For Every Husband". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. July 29, 2016.

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• I would not want to forget the first time I read The Lord of the Rings. I would never want to forget that! That was so magical to me, and that was a real eye-opening experience. I was probably 11 when I read that and already a reader, but I think that book really showed me how you can be transported and how your imagination can take you to a whole other place.

  Sharon Cameron

  Real, Book, Eye

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Writing those books ['Beauty' and 'Style']was really eye-opening, as you realize just how much goes into beauty and fashion, and also how much I've learned over the years. I think both books are essential, as they don't really teach you one particular look that will go out of style next season, but rather tools and tricks you can use over the years.

  Lauren Conrad

  Fashion, Book, Writing

  "My Interview with Lauren Conrad" by Sydney Sadick, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• Talking Taboo is a groundbreaking book. This chorus of bold female voices is presenting the church with an opportunity to engage real but all too frequently avoided or unseen issues impacting countless Christian women today. Their candid essays cover a wide spectrum of perspectives. Readers will resonate with some and be shocked by others. Talking Taboo took courage to write. Reading taboo takes courage too. So buckle up and brace yourself for an eye-opening but vitally important read!

  Carolyn Custis James

  Christian, Real, Book

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• Steven Tepper's Not Here, Not Now, Not That! offers invaluable insights into how social change and uncertainty drive protests over art. With fresh data and perspectives, Tepper makes a compelling case that cultural conflicts are largely homegrown, tied to each community's shifting demographics and values. It's an eye-opening work.

  Ken Paulson

  Art, Eye, Data

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• An eye-opening moment in my life, a very defining moment, was the first time I met Susan Sarandon [before shooting Thelma & Louise]. We were going to meet, just Ridley [Scott] and Susan and I, to go through the script and see if we had any thoughts or ideas. I was reading the script, and in the most girly way possible, meaning that if it was a line that could change or something different I'd like to see, I would think about each one and say, "Well, this one can wait till the set because I don't want to bring up too many things."

  Geena Davis

  Girly, Reading, Eye

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• The rest - all the hoopla, the acclaim - doesn't really matter a lot to Joel and Ethan [Coen]. They just want to get the chance to continue to work. And that blew my mind. To be at that level and to have that humility, it was eye-opening and inspiring.

  David Krumholtz

  Humility, Eye, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't find most people to be as politically engaged as I am. I do find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words, and who want to learn more about what's going on. I do find people with a lot of opinions. And I get a lot of people who come up to me and give us props for what we do.

  Serj Tankian

  Eye, People, Appreciate

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• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though they were speaking to me.

  Diane Drake

  Eye, Firsts, First Time

  Source: www.bluecatscreenplay.com

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  There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "The Wise Man's Fear". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, www.abebooks.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

  John Green

  Hipster, Alaska, Imagining The Future

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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• I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

  Mark Twain

  Forgiveness, Death, Suicide

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• And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

  John Green

  Alaska, Imagining The Future, Labyrinth

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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• I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't so politically motivated. I felt that the world from an early age was disappointing. My father taught me about the bomb, and it was eye-opening. From then on, I thought grown-ups needed to do a better job. I still think that.

  Patti Smith

  Jobs, Father, Eye

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

  "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century". Book by Michio Kaku, 1997.

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• Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

  Peter Saville

  Eye, Quality, Different

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• Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.58, Penguin

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• [I] had very high hopes for Israel and it's lived up to and surpassed what I had in mind... I've had such an eye-opening experience - a really nice glimpse into the culture and lives of Israelis and the Jewish people.

  Omar Benson Miller

  Nice, Eye, Israel

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