“For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl… anticipate.”
“It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.”
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Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet 1475–1564Related quotes
“Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
RODIN, AUGUSTE. L'Art. Entretiens réunis par Paul Gsell, 1911
“He pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“Thine eye was on the censer,
And not the hand that bore it.”
Lines by a Clerk; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.”
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Friday