Reflection Quotes - Page 19

• To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity for future experience. As a social scientist, you have to control this rather elaborate interplay, to capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman

  C. Wright Mills

  Mean, Past, Play

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.196, Oxford University Press

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• Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.

  Chris Spielman

  Football, Loss, Winning

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• Early in life, when I first saw waterlilies on the ripples of a lake, I didn't think they were flowers which grew from the water, but rather flowers which were mirrored from the shore into the lake. So many flowers grow in the silent waters of our souls, and they unfold their petals over the glaze of our consciousness: they grow from within us, but we think them reflections from the external world.

  Lucian Blaga

  Flower, Thinking, Lakes

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• Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Inquiry, Opinion, Novel

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.

  Robert Plant

  Serious, Sometimes

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• Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you.

  Joe Greene

  Life, Love You, Realizing

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• Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and back surfaces. In this intuitively easy analysis, the 'front surface' and 'back surface' arrows are mathematical constructions that give us the right answer, whereas .... a more accurate representation of what is really going on: partial reflection is the scattering of light by electrons inside the glass.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Arrows, Glasses, Light

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• Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

  Dale Dauten

  Mean, Skills, Justice

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• There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections

  Douglas Sirk

  Real, Glasses, Expression

  Douglas Sirk, Lucy Fischer (1991). “Imitation of Life”, p.228, Rutgers University Press

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• The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasnt me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldnt do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.

  Rick Baker

  Powerful, Mean, Mirrors

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• Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

  Leigh Steinberg

  Social Values, Needs, Economy

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• Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

  George Steiner

  Art, Judgement, Criticism

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed. A portrait not only allows us to see our own faces, but how it looks to others.

  Megan Hart

  Mirrors, Portraits, Looks

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• Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.

  Yasmina Reza

  Mirrors, Theatre, Playwright

  "Yasmina Reza: 'There's no point in writing theatre if it's not accessible'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2012.

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• To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical acceleration of rhythm, while the movement itself slowed .  I first called this piece Mouvement symphonique. On reflection I found that a bit colorless. Suddenly, a rather romantic image crossed my mind, and when the work was finished, I wrote the title Pacific 231, which indicates a locomotive for heavy loads and high speeds (a type unfortunately disappeared, alas, and sacrificed to electric traction).

  Arthur Honegger

  Giving, Mind, Firsts

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• We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Mature, Appearance, Phenomenon

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• Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Believe, Men, Together

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.153

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• But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper sentiment; and a false relish may frequently be corrected by argument and reflection. There are just grounds to conclude, that moral beauty partakes of this latter species, and demands the assistance of our intellectual faculties, in order to give it a suitable influence on the human mind.

  David Hume

  Art, Order, Giving

  David Hume, J. B. Schneewind (1983). “An Enquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals”, p.15, Hackett Publishing

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• On her Slave For You video: It's a very sensual video so I thought it was a good reflection of the song. My Mum thought it was... different.

  Britney Spears

  Song, Sensual, Different

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• There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words nor on study. It depends upon the simple raising of our minds to God, and the more simple and stripped of feeling it is, the surer it is.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Prayer, Simple, Feelings

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• When will my reflection show who I am inside?

  Hua Mulan

  Who I Am, Shows

  "Fictional character: Mulan". "Mulan", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Garry Hill is a pleasure to be around, and his work is a rewarding reflection of my career.

  Bobby Allison

  Careers, Hills, Pleasure

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• It happened that sometimes I kissed in mirrors the reflection of my face; since the hands, face and tears of Annalena had caressed it, my face seemed suffused to me divinely beautiful and as if suffused with heavenly sweetness.

  Oscar Milosz

  Beautiful, Mirrors, Hands

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• I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for having suffered this horrid trade to be carried on under their authority. We are all guilty—we ought all to plead guilty, and not to exculpate ourselves by throwing the blame on others; and I therefore deprecate every kind of reflection against the various descriptions of people who are more immediately involved in this wretched business.

  William Wilberforce

  Mean, People, Common

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• It's important not to take yourself too seriously, ... and I think sometimes people take us a lot more seriously than we take ourselves, especially when it comes to politics. Politics, for me, is a reflection of the world I live in. But love is just as important as politics to me. They both exist in the world, you know? And if you don't reflect the entire world around you, then you're leaving something out.

  Daron Malakian

  Love Is, Thinking, People

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