People who can’t see without glasses should wear them.
People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.
TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.
Anybody can tell you what they think. But if you can illustrate what you think, you have a better chance of persuading people.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth tens of thousands of dollars. I use PhotoPad to sync our Samasource Flickr account to my iPad and slip it out of my purse at cocktail parties to tell our story.
Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.
Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.
When I work on a part, one of the things I love to do is to put together a collage of things, stuff I see or stuff that inspires me, images, whatever.
I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.
I got binoculars 'cause I don't want to go that close.
I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.
I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.
Pictures help you to form the mental mold.
Look, it's a show-me game. I've got to be able to show it.
Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.
[The Polaroid camera is] a system that will be a partner in perception, enabling us to see the objects in the world around us more vividly than we can see them without it, a system to be an aid to memory and a tool for exploration.
I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.
I don't wear glasses, so I like the idea of not having to put them on to watch a movie. It's a hard barrier to get beyond.
Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
And I've been wearing specs since I was three.
The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.
It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.
I hated the goggles, don’t get me wrong, but I felt naked without them. Almost like playing without a helmet.
I have better peripheral vision in my left. It is quite hard to remain optimistic, but I have found the Macular Society, of whom I've been an enthusiastic supporter for nine years, tremendously helpful in providing support.
Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.
