Famous Quotes & Sayings

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

Bill Moyers

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

Kevin Towers

We have to get busy. That's the thing about this job. You can't even sit back and reflect on the season you just had before you have to go to work.

We want our stores to reflect the communities they serve.

Jane Austen

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Carl Jung

Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.

Carl Jung

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

Duke Ellington

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

Donald Rumsfeld

Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.

Isobelle Carmody

Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man who professes to be a monster. They'll give me notice very soon. I started out being a great attraction, but people soon understood that what fascinated them about me was no more than the reflection of their own deformities. All I do is how them what is inside themselves,' He added mournfully.

Isabelle Huppert

A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator,

Irving Layton

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.

Jack Nicklaus

Reflection is a scene that I will cherish forever.

Isabel Allende

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.

Bill Cowher

At this point, it's not about the reflection on what we've accomplished. I'm not into too much reflection. You can do that when the season is over.

This (offer) is a reflection on what (the players) accomplished.

Stephen Jay Gould

The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process identified by evolutionists as the chief motor of biological change. The theory of punctuated equilibrium was, in its initial formulation, little more than this insight adumbrated.

The score doesn't reflect how well we played.

Craig Thompson

The state of your psyche is reflected in your body.

Stanley Hauerwas

I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is one of the reasons, moreover, that the scriptures remain paradigmatic for how we are to write.

The site is a reflection of society. It's an enter-at-your-own-risk kind of thing.

Kim Cattrall

What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If Im in a good mood, its got to be cashmere and jeans - just something comfy, soft and warm. When Im down, I might find something that I havent worn for a while that was bought for me - or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends.

Bill Cowher

This was very reflective of how they feel about their teammates.

Jenny McCarthy

What are friends for? They are the ultimate reflection of yourself. Always surround yourself with people who inspire you and return the favor by giving them the best of you.

That got my attention. They were asking, 'What are the values we have between us and how can we take all that and put it into a venture that reflects our values?' That is the right way to think about being an entrepreneur.

Matt Smith

It should not reflect on the school. It's a big story, of course, but it's all been random.

Brendan Shanahan

It's the same thought process. These are things that at the end of the season, or at the end of your career, you can reflect on.

Georgette Heyer

I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.

Henry David Thoreau

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

Henry David Thoreau

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

Jean Genet

If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.