Reflection Quotes - Page 12

• These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.

  Louis Pasteur

  Spring, Action, Infinite

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• My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Moving, Knowing

  "Transported by the Images of Tarkovsky" by Brad Brevet, www.comingsoon.net. March 12, 2013.

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• Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.

  Alain Badiou

  Art, Real, Infinity

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• We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that once with firmness Could grasp the axe and blade, Now move with trembling motion, By strength of nerve decayed. The change in form and feature And furrows on the cheek Of Time's increasing volume, In plain, round numbers speak. And thus, as in a mirror's Reflection, we were told, With stereotyped impressions, The fact of growing old.

  Eliza R. Snow

  Moving, Mirrors, Hands

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• I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I become at his greatness and the more excited I become about Bible doctrine. Whereas easy appeals to mystery prematurely shut off reflection about God, rigorous and earnest effort to understand him is richly rewarded with deeper appreciation of who he is, more confidence in his reality and care, and a more intelligent and profound worship of his person.

  William Lane Craig

  Appreciation, Intelligent, Reality

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• It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

  Edward Sapir

  Communication, Mean, Reality

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.162, Univ of California Press

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• It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

  Alan Pardew

  Europe, Clubs, France

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• 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 Morrissey

  People, Romance, Arguing

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• I truly am the reflection of perfection.

  Ricky Martin

  Perfection

  "The Apprentice: Grace Dent's TV OD". www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated, every slight imperfection a new delicacy.

  Lydia Lunch

  Glasses, Mirrors, Self

  Lydia Lunch (1997). “Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary”, Creation Publishing Group

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• The milestone of 100 episodes is a reflection of the amazing work and dedication of the entire Clone Wars cast and crew. Being a part of this production has been an honor and privilege that has changed my life forever.

  Ashley Eckstein

  War, Dedication, Forever

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• Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely sees in anthropology. Lifeworlds, unsurprisingly, is no exception. The several essays included here fit into an impressive whole that set out a compelling case for a type of ethnography of which Jackson is one of the masters. The writing is strong and the critical reflections impressive. This book defines an approach to anthropology that is resonant enough to challenge the leading models of our time.

  Arthur Kleinman

  Strong, Philosophy, Book

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• B*tch: a reflection of people’s lack of creativity & inability to acknowledge & embrace a powerful woman; a woman who won’t comply.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Powerful, Creativity, People

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• We usually recognize a beginning. Endings are more difficult to detect. Most often, they are realized only after reflection. Silence. We are seldom conscious when silence begins—it is only afterward that we realize what we have been a part of. In the night journeys of Canada geese, it is the silence that propels them. Thomas Merton writes, “Silence is the strength of our interior life.… If we fill our lives with silence, then we will live in hope.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Writing, Night, Journey

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.193, Vintage

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• To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!

  Fanny Burney

  Adventure, Interesting, Secret

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3739, Delphi Classics

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• I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent.

  Chris Burden

  Children, Tools, Use

  Interview with Sonia Campagnola and Valentina Sansone, www.flashartonline.com. 2009.

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• It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Waiting, Trying, Looks

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• People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

  Albert Bandura

  Thinking, People, Understanding

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.

  Thomas Dreier

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.

  William B. Ogden

  Happiness, Self, Solitude

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• In vain sedate reflections we would make
  When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

  Alexander Pope

  Knowledge, Half, Vain

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.181

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• The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

  Havelock Ellis

  Dance, Dancing, Joy

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• Seeing within changes one's outer vision.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Vision, Awe, Self Awareness

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• The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Wisdom, Yoga, Water

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• One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate goal of our evolution is to become the Spirit, which is the reflection of God Almighty in our heart. That is self identity and also self knowledge. Also, one becomes one with the all-pervading Divine power of love. Our awareness is enlightened by the Spirit and Divine vibrations start flowing through our central nervous system enlightening our being.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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