Magnifying Quotes

Everybody is always looking at the best in the world with a magnifying glass and they are criticised more than others.

By magnifying and analyzing your missteps, you learn faster.

I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there’s a mirror in the bathroom, but it’s a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don’t like mirrors because they take you by surprise.

The only line that’s wrong in Shakespeare is ‘holding a mirror up to nature.’ You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.

A ship‘s engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew‘s magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.

I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They’re discovery devices, not performance devices – you’re watching things the way a cat does. You’re not judging. You’re there to witness something.

In the U.S., everything is big – it’s like looking through a magnifying glass.

Mothers subject their daughters to a level of scrutiny people usually reserve for themselves. A mother‘s gaze is like a magnifying glass held between the sun’s rays and kindling. It concentrates the rays of imperfection on her daughter’s yearning for approval. The result can be a conflagration – whoosh.

Don’t waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can’t do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?

We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.

With the Spirit and magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit, you will never succeed, regardless of your talent and ability.

Just because we say networks are important doesn’t mean that networks explain everything. We’re just adding additional information. Networks don’t work like a match – they work like a magnifying glass.

Drama is drama, and it’s really… if it’s something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it’s something big, you use a wide lens.

People think racist abuse stops on the football pitch, but that’s just the beginning. When you go home, you are still confronted with it. Football is just a magnifying glass of the real world.

Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.

This is how I feel about horror films: there’s enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.

I get naturally uncomfortable when I’m put under a magnifying glass.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

I love being able to tell a story visually. It’s something I love about making commercials, where you put a magnifying glass over the mundane and make it feel extraordinary.

The most important thing is to cleanse and moisturise your face twice a day. Use eye drops. If your eyes are white, you look healthy; you look fresh. Every man should have a magnifying mirror. If you look good magnified, you are set to go.

There are times where I’m just open to receive songs. I sit down, and a jam will just come out, all at once. It’s like, ‘Song. Done.’ I can’t really explain it. This isn’t the best way of putting it, but sometimes I feel like I’m a magnifying glass for vibes.

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

As humans, we’ve all experienced some level of pain. Acting is just a matter of accessing and magnifying these emotions.

I have serious medical support when Im filming ‘Grantchester’. Theyre super-cautious with me – and all I do is lift a blooming magnifying glass.

I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays – with the Internet – there’s so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything’s sort of under a magnifying glass.

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn’t serve anyone, and it’s painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you’re magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

The functional uses of machines and innovative computer programs is not to isolate us but, rather, to promote coexistence. If used properly, it brings us together, granting unimaginable opportunities, magnifying the most quintessential and exclusively human capabilities.

‘Research,’ for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is traveling to places, or studying snowflakes with a magnifying glass, or excavating one’s memories. Research is walking around Hamburg with a notebook.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.