Eye Quotes

Even if you are threatened with death, look at your situation right in the eye and praise the Lord

~ Sunday Adelaja

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

~ Ernst F. Schumacher

People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan.

~ Dave Ramsey

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

~ Henri Bergson

The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.

~ Simon Sinek

I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.

~ Emmy Rossum

Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

~ Harold Prince

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.

~ James Wolcott

After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.

~ Iman

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

~ Mike Krzyzewski

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

~ Jensen Ackles

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

~ H. Jackson Brown

My eye is ever on those who love me.

~ Sai Baba

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

~ James Patrick Murray

There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.

~ Aaron Sorkin

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

~ Norman Cousins

The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!

~ Burt Rutan

Instead of the cashier and ticket-ripper of the movie theater, the block chain consists of thousands of computers that can process digital tickets, money, and many other fiduciary objects in digital form. Think of thousands of robots wearing green eye shades, all checking each other's accounting.

~ Nick Szabo

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

~ Patrick Demarchelier

Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try and avoid making eye contact with anyone. It was freaky, and it just happened overnight. I couldn't handle it.

~ Alison Moyet

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

~ Henry David Thoreau

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

~ Thomas Campbell

The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.

~ William C. Bryant

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

~ Thomas Eakins

We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.

~ Katherine Johnson

The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to have evolved only once. The eye, by contrast, independently evolved 40 times. So, if you were to 'replay' evolution, the eye would almost certainly appear again, whereas the big brain probably wouldn't.

~ Richard Dawkins

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

~ Vitruvius

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

~ Phil Mcgraw

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

~ Talib Kweli

I want to be able to look my daughter's teacher in the eye and say, 'Your pension will be there.' I need to know that her pension will match up with a promise we can keep.

~ Gina Raimondo

Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.

~ Debra Messing

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

~ Bret Harte

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

~ Douglas Macarthur

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

~ Mary Mccarthy

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

~ Dave Barry

The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.

~ Saoirse Ronan

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

~ Austin O'malley