Reflecting Quotes - Page 14

• In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Wall, War, Thinking

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too.

  Stephanie Nielson

  Believe, Different, Facts

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• Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Reflection, Way, Unintended Consequences

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.262, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A man may be a Bah' in name only. If he is a Bah' in reality, his deeds and actions will be decisive proofs of it. What are the requirements? Love for mankind, sincerity toward all, reflecting the oneness of the world of humanity, philanthropy, becoming enkindled with the fire of the love of God, attainment to the knowledge of God and that which is conducive to human welfare.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Men, Reality, Oneness

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• I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus ... The reconciliation of the methods which you are planning to make, serves to clarify them mutually, and what they have in common contains very often their true metaphysics; this is why that metaphysics is almost the last thing that one discovers. The spirit arrives at the results as if by instinct; it is only on reflecting upon the route that it and others have followed that it succeeds in generalising the methods and in discovering its metaphysics.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science, Reflecting Upon, Lasts

  "Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800-1840:From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Vol.1: The Setting". Book by Grattan-Guinness, p. 139, July 1, 1990.

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• I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a peculiar obligation to show himself in every respect a good citizen; for after all, the way he can best do his duty by the ancient order to which he belongs is by reflecting credit upon that order by way in which he performs his duty as a citizen of the United States.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Brother, Order, United States

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• I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games.

  Marcus Allen

  Athlete, Years, Games

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• Water becomes clear and transparent when in a quiescent stage. How much the more wonderful will be the mind of a sage when poised in quiescence! It is the mirror of heaven and earth, reflecting the ten thousand things.

  Zhuangzi

  Mirrors, Water, Heaven

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• The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one point. We were discussing things such as how to avoid certain dangers, while reflecting on a volcano that had threatened to explode 40 years ago.

  Werner Herzog

  Volcanoes, Years, Training

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• In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Self, Order, Speaking Up

  Sheila Rowbotham (1999). “Threads Through Time: Writings on History and Autobiography”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Men, Games, Psychological

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Mirrors, Giving

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• [A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures that people experience the consequences of their own acts. Property sets up fences, but it also surrounds us with mirrors, reflecting back upon us the consequences of our own behavior.

  Tom Bethell

  Mirrors, Reflecting Back, People

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• At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life Changing, Past, People

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.102, Vintage

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• My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.

  Brian Posehn

  Thinking, Want, Happened

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• I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

  Peter Morgan

  Writing, Ideas, Who I Am

  "OSCAR Q&A: Peter Morgan Talks 'Hereafter'". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man I was. So, you want to know what God calls perfect and upright? Read Job 29, and you will understand what kind of man God esteems.

  Eric Ludy

  Jobs, Past, Men

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• Naming an emotion begins the process of regulating it and reflecting on it.

  Sue Johnson

  Emotion, Process

  Sue Johnson (2014). “The Love Secret: The revolutionary new science of romantic relationships”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.

  M.I.A.

  Mirrors, Reflecting Back, Perception

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• By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.

  Shakti Gawain

  Teacher, Mirrors, Reflecting Back

  "Shakti Gawain Is Still ‘Living in the Light’". Interview with BJ Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sadness, Reflecting Upon, Ruins

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• The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think ofa wound, we can scarcely forbear reflecting on the pain which follows it.

  David Hume

  Pain, Thinking, Reflection

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1992). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.14, Hackett Publishing

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• Beginning in 1962... the courts began to systematically secularize the nation, reflecting its view that God and the Scripture had no place in the public arena.

  Rick Scarborough

  Christian, Religious, Views

  Rick Scarborough (2000). “Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement”

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• Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Comfort, May, Distinction

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• Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Moon, Use, Sun

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