Reflecting Quotes

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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• A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, World, Emotion

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.59, MIT Press

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• We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

  John Dewey

  Mistake, Learning From Mistakes, Learning Experience

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• Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

  Virginia Woolf

  Motivational, Women, Power

  A Room of One's Own ch. 2 (1929)

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• Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

  Brigham Young

  Glasses, Sea, Sun

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• If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

  Jane Fonda

  Careers, Unexpected, Inconvenience

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• Sit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance.

  T. B. Joshua

  Chance, Happens, Things Happen

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• This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Success, Journey, Keys

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  There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

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• Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Wise, Peace

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• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

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• Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Mirrors, Four Elements

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Influential, Reacting, Contemplating

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• The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'

  Jennifer Grant

  Memories, Dad, Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.

  Hideki Tojo

  Blessing, Should Have, Reflecting Upon

  "Hideki Tojo's Prison Diary". "The Journal of Historical Review", Vol. 12, No. 1, (pp. 31-85), www.ihr.org. 1992.

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  The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

  Ray Kroc

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the need to "prove" ourselves or to forget ourselves by living mechanically and unconsciously.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Stronger, Needs

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity”, Jossey-Bass

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• It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Sunshine, Reflection

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.

  Philip K. Dick

  Jobs, Dark, Artist

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Four novels of the 1960s”

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• Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation.

  Sergio Pinto

  Nature, Sometimes, Creation

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• Every second you spend thinking about what you don't want in your life is a second denying focus and energy from getting what you do want. Every minute you worry about what's not working is a minute drawn away from creating what will work. And every hour spent reflecting on the disappointments of the past is an hour stolen from seeing the possibilities that your future holds.

  Robin Sharma

  Disappointment, Past, Thinking

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• A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Funny, Family, Sad

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1117, Race Point Pub

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• Not being in touch with your vulnerability and not learning to own it and accept it and be comfortable with it leaves you in a position where you're liable to look at and judge other people for being vulnerable because they're reflecting that part of yourself that you're not comfortable with.

  Shakti Gawain

  People, Judging, Looks

  "An interview with Shakti Gawain about transformation locally and globally". Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Life, Past

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

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