{"quotes":[{"text":"To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["belief","comprehension","comprehensive","conceive","existence","grasp","hands","immense","immensity","knowledge","life","limitations","limited","living","myopic","ocean","perception","point-of-view","short-sighted","understanding","water","wisdom"],"id":94976,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["argue","belief","bullheaded","consequence","consequences","conviction","convinced","debate","electricity","fixated","ignorance","ignorant","illogical","lesson","myopic","obstinate","outcome","plead","socket","solution","solve","stubborn","stubbornness","surrender","tunnel-vision","unbending","understanding"],"id":181726,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["blind","blinded","design","god","majestic","majesty","mediocre","mediocrity","myopic","perception","shortsighted","shortsightedness","vision"],"id":243710,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["above-oneself","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","arrogance","arrogant","bigheaded","bigoted","bigotry","blinkered","close-minded","cocksure","cocky","complacent","conceit","conceited","conservative","danger","dangerous","dyed-in-the-wool","full-of-oneself","funny","hidebound","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","illiberal","inflexible","insular","intolerant","inward-looking","irritate","irritating","irritation","joke","jokes","mean-spirited","myopic","narrow-minded","parochial","petty","pleased-with-oneself","prejudiced","provincial","puffed-up","satire","self-important","self-satisfied","set-in-one-s-ways","shortsighted","small-minded","small-town","smug","too-big-for-one-s-boots","too-big-for-one-s-britches","uncharitable","unimaginative","vain","vainglorious","vanity"],"id":410362,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Five of the most dangerous words I know: ‘What’s in it for me?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["belief","danger","dangerous","ego","egocentric","greed","greedy","myopic","opinion","perspective","self-centered","self-focused","selfish","selfishness","words"],"id":461481,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"If I see only my bias, I have surrendered to a single myopic lens through which to view the world. If I dare to surrender my bias, I will spend the rest of my life seeing the world and throwing away lenses.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bias","biased","clarity","life","limited","living","myopic","opinion","perspective","point-of-view","surrender","viewpoint","vision","world"],"id":478709,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}