Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
J. W. Eagan

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle

People are trading distance for dollars.
Ray Brown

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
Andy Goldsworthy

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
Donald Rumsfeld

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
Edmond Halley

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
Edward Albee

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
Edward Albee

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.
Keren Ann

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
Henri Nouwen

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Jean Paul

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Michael Korda

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.
Emily Greene Balch

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Ambrose Bierce

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.
Shoshana Zuboff

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Karl Kraus

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
David Trimble

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein

The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.
Isabella I