Joan Cusack

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.

American Actress

Jason Silva

Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.

American Director

Idina Menzel

Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

Huma Qureshi

Honestly, I got a lot of offers which were similar to 'Badlapur,' and I didn't want that. Unfortunately, we live in a world which is so myopic that they only want to offer you what you have already done.

Indian Actress

Joe Klein

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

American Journalist

Rick Perry

In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.

American Politician

Nancy Pearcey

Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.

American Author

Maya Soetoro-Ng

I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.

American Educator

Reid Hoffman

Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic - to be focused on one or two things - which has some strengths as well as weaknesses.

American Businessman

Camille Paglia

Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

The word 'myopic' in this context refers to the physical condition of the eyes.

Literal Meaning

'Myopic' describes a vision issue neutrally, without implying it's the person's fault.

Not Always Negative

Often used in medical or health-related discussions rather than everyday conversation.

Health Context

When discussing non-physical vision, 'myopic' implies a failure to consider the bigger picture.

Metaphoric Sense

Used metaphorically, 'myopic' often carries a tone of criticism for short-term thinking.

Critically Negative

Can be used in various contexts like business, politics, or personal planning, not just vision.

Non-Vision Contexts

 Impoverished imagination, a myopic view of the world -- that's the way I read it at first. The more I thought about it, however, the more I came to the view that this fish knows something. Because the truth of the matter is, if you shatter the fishbowl so that everything is possible,

The paradox of choice PIPE...

 and in others, too little. Eyes with a focal point in front of the retina are called myopic, or short-sighted. They can see close objects clearly, but those far away are out of focus. But when the focus point is behind the retina, people are hyperopic, or long-sighted.

How do glasses help us...

 sock full of air you can see that the wind is blowing from the elephant to us and that means the elephant will not smell us and their eyesight is good probably about as good as ours maybe they're a little bit more myopic than some but their eyesight is generally

Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...

 Frustrated by this myopic view, my friend and I had this crazy Let's break our fast at a different mosque in a different state each night of Ramadan and share those stories on a blog. We called it "30 Mosques in 30 Days," and we drove to all the 50 states

Bassam Tariq: The beauty...

 that feels like a really different kind of intelligence. For starters, any one fish is just so tiny compared to the sheer size of the collective, so it seems that any one individual would have a really limited and myopic view of what's going on,

What intelligent...

 That is a myopic pinprick of time when you think of the evolution and the story of life on this planet. Turns out we're all in the cheap seats and none of us will live to see how it all pans out. So at my company, we wanted a way around this.

A fascinating time...

 To give you one example of the impact this can have, this little boy, eight years old, walked with his mother two days to come to the eye clinic put on by the Comfort. When he was fitted, over his extremely myopic eyes,

James Stavridis: How...

 sometimes I'm also shall we say, "myopic" when it comes to other people's feelings, and that sometimes makes you say things that hurt other people. And I'm not proud of that. But, at the same time, it's --

The mind behind Linux PIPE...

 fitted over his extremely myopic eyes he suddenly looked up and said mama veo el mundo mom I see the world multiply this by four hundred thousand patient treatments this private-public

A Navy Admiral's...

 myopic they don't see the reality after every peace process there's a backlash and there's leftovers of the