Top 119 Magnifying Quotes & Sayings

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

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

By magnifying and analyzing your missteps, you learn faster.

Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.

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

I want you to think back to when you were a kid. Remember the day you learned you could burn ants with a magnifying glass? Oh, what a great day that was! You got to be God. You decided who lived, who died. I must've burned ants for an hour, just laughing. Then I saw one on my arm. Let me tell you something, when you burn yourself with a magnifying glass, you're on your own. You can't even tell your mom, because she gives that face, Oh, he is that stupid.

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

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

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

It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.

I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

Never, ever lose sight of the power of one individual American. They can have an unbelievable magnifying affect just by the very fact they make up their mind to do so!

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 splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

Instead of getting an iPad, I now use my iPhone with a giant magnifying glass attached to my face.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything we hear nothing.

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves.

I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

Probably the greatest need in the Church today is a body of men who are absolutely devoted, every selfish purpose and plan given up, to the one great end of magnifying the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of the nation.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

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

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

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

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

All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.

Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives.

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

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.

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.

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free. But I can sit and watch an ant run up and down the floor for hours. I use a magnifying glass to look at the beautiful shape of the thing.

Invite the Sacred to participate in your joy in little things, as well as in your agony over the great ones. There are as many miracles to be seen through a microscope as through a telescope. Start with little things seen through the magnifying glass of wonder, and just as a magnifying glass can focus the sunlight into a burning beam that can set a leaf aflame, so can your focused wonder set you ablaze with insight. Find the light in each other and just fan it.

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

Failure is life's magnifying glass.

When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy.

The game of investing is a process of discovering who you are, what you're interested in, what you're good at, what you love to do, then magnifying that until you gain a sizable edge over all the other people.

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

Maybe I'm an open book, or maybe love is like a magnifying glass straight into the souls of those who own your heart.

And young women, please understand that if you dress immodestly, you are magnifying this problem by becoming pornography to some of the men who see you.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.

When we, believers, sing our songs of worship, not only do we praise God through them, but we preach to ourselves. As we sing the truth of who it is we're worshipping, as well as honoring God, it can be so helpful to us. Worship is about magnifying the right things. It can be so easy to let the struggles of this become all consuming, and we must not ignore them. But when we worship, instead of magnifying and focusing on those things, we magnify and focus on the name, the strength, the power, the grace of Jesus. When we do that, it puts everything into perspective.

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

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.