Obvious Quotes - Page 14

• Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.

  Jim Rohn

  Success, School, Study

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 25, 2017

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• If it were only a few degrees, that would be serious, but we could adapt to it. But the danger is the warming process might be unstable and run away. We could end up like Venus, covered in clouds and with the surface temperature of 400 degrees. It could be too late if we wait until the bad effects of warming become obvious. We need action now to reduce emission of carbon dioxide.

  Stephen Hawking

  Running, Clouds, Waiting

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• It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has placed them in, and that the most abstract form of democratic theory would be practicable among sages guided only by their reason. The only problem is to what degree it is possible to excite or to contain the passions without endangering public happiness.

  Madame de Stael

  Women, Passion, Fate

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• The same individuals who are doing primary research in the role of humans on the climate system are then permitted to lead the [IPCC] assessment! There should be an outcry on this obvious conflict of interest, but to date either few recognize this conflict, or see that since the recommendations of the IPCC fit their policy and political agenda, they chose to ignore this conflict. In either case, scientific rigor has been sacrificed and poor policy and political decisions will inevitably follow.

  Roger A. Pielke

  Assessment, Decision, Political

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• Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone.

  Michael Jeter

  Ideas, Trying, Nightmare

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• It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.

  Pat Boone

  Majority, Facts, Comedy

  Interview with Wes Vernon, www.renewamerica.com. January 9, 2006.

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• To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Running, Exercise, Risk

  "American right vows to settle score as Bush's nemesis turns up the heat" by Lawrence Donegan, Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2004.

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• It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary

  Cillian Murphy

  Character, Play, Littles

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• You can curl up in the fetal position and try to wish away all the things that need doing, or you can get started on that uphill battle to reclaim your life. The difficulty isn’t what choice to make, because that part is obvious. The difficulty lies in finding the energy and inspiration to make the right choice.

  Noel Fisher

  Lying, Inspiration, Choices

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• It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Years, Research

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• Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

  Peter Jackson

  Moments, Bigs, One Thing

  "Peter Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2009.

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• A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

  Jean Anouilh

  Genius, Understood, Know How

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• It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.

  Bill Hicks

  Party, America, Political

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• If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life.

  Gangaji

  Views, Suffering, Energy

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• It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

  David F. Houston

  Agriculture, Important, Crops

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• Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.

  David F. Houston

  United States, Corn, Crops

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• And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.

  Juan Goytisolo

  White, Spain, Elements

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• We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether it’s worth it - and why electoral democracy hasn’t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?

  Noah Feldman

  Blow, Rights, Self

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• His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this - or more accurately, because of this - his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz - at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form.

  Gunther Schuller

  Inspiration, Thinking, Color

  "All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century". Book by John Rockwell, 1983.

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• It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Reading, Mirrors

  Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier (2007). “Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life”, p.19, Crown Archetype

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• There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

  Robert Sternberg

  Psychology

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• Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.

  Megyn Kelly

  Thinking, Next, Found

  "Megyn Kelly: Fox's Lady". Article by Julia Reed, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 4, 2013.

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• The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.

  Frederic Chopin

  People, Proud, Nonsense

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.

  Dave Barry

  Men, Years, Long

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.30, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!

  Hermann Hesse

  Angel, Sheep, Nine

  "Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse".

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