Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
I’m not blind to the reality of sponsorships and endorsements and stuff. And I don’t mind the challenge of change. I enjoy that. That’s life. You can’t grow without change.
I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy.
Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.
Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye.
But I’m so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it’s just so slow, I’m so terribly slow using it.
An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.
My theory about L.A. is that it’s almost like you have an allergy that’s dormant and just need to be put in the right context for that allergy to come out. And L.A.’s like that in my mind. People who have any of that dormant blind ambition, it can easily come out in that context.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to turn children into gun enthusiasts before they are even old enough to buy a firearm of their own.
You know, you can’t give this unattainable superhero and expect people to identify with them. It’s a cool story to read, but I never identified with Wonder Woman, until I read the story like, where she goes blind for a year and ends up in the underworld.
One of the hallmarks of the American justice system is that it should be blind to individuals’ idiosyncratic descriptors, including biological sex, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or physical attributes.
The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.
Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions – the old ones are so cozy.
The recent blind faith some Republicans have shown toward free trade actually represents more of an aberration than a hallmark of true American conservatism. It’s an anomaly that may well demand re-examination.
I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh – the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.
I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy – I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.
Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.
The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them… and royally squander their lives with her.
For all of my life I’d been extremely healthy. I’d never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous.
For decades, the United States condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s coercive population-control policies – too often alone in its criticism, while other nations turned a blind eye as they sought commercial advantages in China.
In the case of Elektra I really wasn’t sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.
I was a huge ‘Blind Date’ fan, though, when I was younger; that was on when I was in high school.
