Words matter. These are the best Eyesight Quotes from famous people such as Pete Buttigieg, Phyllis Diller, Rosemary Mahoney, Ellen Hollman, Sue Perkins, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
By high school, I had traded my oversized, thick glasses for contact lenses, but my eyesight was getting worse every year, smothering my childhood aspiration of becoming an astronaut or, at least, a pilot.
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Most of us who have healthy eyesight are extremely attached to our vision, often without being conscious that we are. We depend heavily on our eyes, and yet we rarely give them a second thought. I, at least, am this way. The physical world is almost hyper-vivid to me.
I have very poor eyesight, and I can’t imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.
The great thing about ageing is that your eyesight deteriorates at the same rate as your face. So I can’t see how bad things are getting.
Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.
When someone’s eyesight is not right and he is asked to drive a bus then accident will certainly take place.
Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary – hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.
The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That’s our eyesight. That’s how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.
I am most grateful for having bad eyesight, which prevented me from becoming a commercial pilot and instead, led me to having the best job in the world – representing the people of California’s 47th Congressional District.
Somehow, I knew you had to have perfect eyesight to be a test pilot, and so that was it for my astronaut career.
A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.
My eyesight is not good. You guys will see, in games you’ll watch, I will have times where I don’t see the catcher very well, especially in low-light conditions. I can get to about 20/40. That’s about as good as they can get me with the stigmatisms and stuff I have going on.
As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody. Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
Of course Airbnb made mistakes the first year! Some came from our own preconceptions. When we started, we designed our interface for ourselves, Internet-savvy twentysomethings. We never considered the role of good eyesight in our interface – font size, vernacular; it all matters.
In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.
When looking through the spiritual eye, or the third eye encased within the human mind, one can see vividly beyond the ken of human eyesight, beyond the material atom, and into the future, thereby transcending the limitations of time and space.
I have the most dreadfully appalling eyesight. I’m really shortsighted and have been since I was about five. I was the speccy girl with the pink National Health glasses. That’s my physical vulnerability, and I wish I could put it right, but I can’t – even with surgery.
I like using snapshot cameras because they’re idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I’m no good at focusing big cameras.
You understand what your eyes mean to you, but it’s different when you have to go through something like I did, where it’s a possibility you could have lost your eyesight. It puts things back into perspective for you and humbles you a little bit.
I wanted to join the Army, but my eyesight wasn’t good, so I quit school and my job to just focus on fighting. I didn’t want to just get deployed. I wanted to get in on the action.
No Botox, no facelifts. I’ve had two laser surgeries for my eyesight, that’s it. The rest is down to good genes and my unique personal formula for good health.
To be a racing driver it’s essential you have very good eyesight, and that’s especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you’re travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving.
I don’t read anything anymore. I don’t have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that’s all. I think I’ve read everything that’s worth reading.
I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I’ve been a crock from very early on.
My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.
Life begins at 40 – but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
I would have become a pilot if it wasn’t for my poor eyesight and the fact that I am hopeless in science.
I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of ‘Impressionism’ unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.
So many times we take things like eyesight for granted cause it’s so natural. We wake up and we see, we wake up and we walk. It’s just so natural for us. So, for me not to be able to see for 2-3 days straight, it was hell.
Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.
I have ridiculously bad eyesight, but I have learned to live with an impressionistic view. Life is a Monet painting. I wander around enjoying myopia.
I was 13 when I developed the classic symptoms of a person who gets diabetes: a lot of weight loss, a tremendous thirst, and blurry eyesight. My mom took me to the hospital, and the doctors took some blood tests. My blood sugar was so high that they knew right away.
Every apartment I’ve ever lived in has had a space to make, create, and get stuff done within eyesight of my bed.
Mum was in her early 50s when she had four strokes in quick succession that almost took her off. I’d just come down from Cambridge with a rubbish degree. I spent a year reading to her – her eyesight was badly affected – and making sure she got proper rest. It was a special time but very intense, too.
My father had lost his eyesight, so if we placed something somewhere, it had to be in the right spot, exactly, or something could go wrong. That’s the attention to detail I demand at the workplace.
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.
As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out.