Reflection Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• 'He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

  John Steinbeck

  Said

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.413, Penguin

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• How did it make you feel?

  Irvine Welsh

  Feels

  Harry Gibson, Irvine Welsh, Keith Wyatt (2001). “4-Play”, Vintage Books

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• A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

  Umberto Eco

  Hypnosis, Civilization, Language

  "Can Television Teach?". Screen Education, 1979.

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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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• An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.

  Russell Hoban

  Dark, Night, Glasses

  Russell Hoban (2002). “The Medusa Frequency”, p.80, A&C Black

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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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