Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Covey

The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.

Stephen Covey

We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.

Tony Hsieh

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.

Sigmund Freud

This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.

Shakti Gawain

I think that everything in the world around us is a reflection of what is going on inside of us. So each of us as an individual creates a life - we draw to us certain people and events and circumstances that reflect what's going on inside of us, so we can literally look at our life and see a mirror of our own consciousness. And if that's true on an individual level, it's also true that what's going on in the world in a bigger way is a reflection of the collective consciousness.

Steven Morrissey

People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.

Steven Weinberg

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.

Samuel Alexander

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

T. Harv Eker

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.

T. D. Jakes

Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.

Suze Orman

How you end something as profound and important as a marriage is a reflection of how you live your life--financially, emotionally, and spiritually.

Jostein Gaarder

History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process

Kim Kardashian

Everything family does is reflection on the other people.

Kenzaburo Oe

I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.

Kenneth Burke

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality,

Kenneth Burke

Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.

Rachel Stevens

I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

Lenora Crichlow

There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

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

Russell Banks

Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.

Rhonda Byrne

Your life is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great... Think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and do not allow any contradictory thoughts to take root.

Paramahansa Yogananda

When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.

Mary Catherine Bateson

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

Marty Natalegawa

The remission to Abu Bakar Bashir is not a reflection on the individual per se rather than the application of the remission program, which is applied in general.

Martin Bashir

Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the President of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation. It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues, at this special network, will be allowed to focus on the issues that matter without the distraction of myself or my ill-judged comments.

Pope Benedict XVI

My dear friends, God’s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care for our environment are of vital importance for humanity. They cannot, however, be understood apart from a profound reflection on the innate dignity of every human life from conception to natural death: a dignity conferred by God himself and thus inviolable.

Pope Francis

Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.

Paulo Coelho

How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.

Prince

I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.

Pliny the Elder

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.