Quotes about reflection
reflection attention critics
Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work. Edward Albee
reflection spoons egotism
She smiles at her reflection in a spoon. Edie Brickell
reflection mirrors self-improvement
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection. Jorge Luis Borges
reflection filmmaker you-choose
What you choose to do professionally is a reflection of yourself and I take that seriously as an actor. But even as a filmmaker, I take it even more seriously. Logan Lerman
reflection people vampire
The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection? Lynda Barry
reflection past equality
As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of the past--to preserve the delicate balance of justice between the majority's whims and the minority's rights. Lyndon B. Johnson
reflection air years
I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. Lord Chesterfield
reflection museums drs
Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape Oliver Sacks
reflection compassion knives
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
reflection cities study
He studied cities as women study their reflections. O. Henry
reflection views europe
Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations. Henryk Sienkiewicz
reflection president elements
We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement. Henry Clay
reflection confusion world
Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me. John Knowles
reflection thinking mirrors
The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
reflection design creative
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
reflection action duty
How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
reflection desire example
It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
reflection worry shapes
Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself. Emma Thompson
reflection inward silent
Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still. John Heider
reflection decision want
It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances. John Henry Newman
reflection mirrors echoes
People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose. Ayn Rand
reflection doubt preparation
When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
reflection wind sea
If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection. Edgar Allan Poe
reflection games chess
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.
reflection past years
In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a life periodically dividing into entirely separate compartments. Change of surroundings, interests, pursuits, has made it seem actually more like different incarnations. Eleanor Robson Belmont
reflection season
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. Bill Cowher
reflection regret sure
They have jumped the gun. I'm sure on reflection they will regret they have done it.
reflection room
Your room is a reflection of your heart.
reflection wife desire
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. Georgette Heyer
reflection men house
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode. Henry David Thoreau
reflection men grandchildren
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.
reflection world want
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 Genet
reflection men animal
The man who meditates is a depraved animal. Jean-Jacques Rousseau