Reflection Quotes - Page 28

• Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Majority, Culture, Want

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• This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.

  Thomas Hirschhorn

  Art, Goal, Essentials

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• The dog is a reflection of your energy, of your behavior. You have to ask, 'What am I doing?' That's the right question to ask.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Energy, Behavior

  FaceBook post by Cesar Millan from Jan 14, 2014

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• I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Dark, Examination, Way

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• The dark is a quiet place. Reflection and contemplation are the only things to do in it. Well that, and imagine the worst things possible.
  I don’t have to reflect or contemplate or any of those things. I know what the worst things possible are. I know about the things that hide in the dark. Insanity is the least of them.

  Tara Brown

  Dark, Insanity, Quiet

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• Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

  Mario Cuomo

  Honesty, Thoughtful, Listening

  Mario Cuomo (2012). “Reason to Believe”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• [E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Mars, Divinity

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• My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so.

  Marquis de Sade

  Thinking, Fool, Care

  "Letters from Prison".

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• Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

  Saint Augustine

  Silence, Looks, Littles

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• As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.

  Walter Murch

  Years, Wind, Gone

  Michael Ondaatje, Walter Murch (2002). “The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film”, p.9, A&C Black

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• As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old. [...] At that age, you know enough of the world to have opinions about things, but you're not old enough yet to be overly influenced by the crowd or by what other people are doing or what you think you 'should' be doing. If what you do later on ties into that reservoir in some way, then you are nurturing some essential part of yourself.

  Walter Murch

  Thinking, Years, Wind

  "The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film". Book by Michael Ondaatje, December 3, 2012.

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• Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.

  Richard Dawkins

  Memories, Regret, Grief

  "Dawkins: Evolution Is ‘Not A Controversial Issue’". CNN Interview, link.kplr11.com. September 7, 2012.

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• Now I'm a little hurt. Let me check my tears in the reflection of my championship gold.

  The Miz

  Hurt, Wwe, Tears

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• Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

  Eliphas Levi

  Beauty, Beautiful, Skulls

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• Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the face is distorted in the mirror so it is much more than a simple reflection. Sometimes something surprising emerges - some darkness or secret appears without us knowing why or giving it permission.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Teacher, Simple

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• If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived life, we can't equate defeat with being unworthy of love, belonging and joy. If we do, we'll never show up and try again.

  Brené Brown

  Hurt, Disappointment, Moving

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.62, Penguin

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• Your heart works for you, but do you work for your heart?

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Heart, Inspire

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• All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear on notice that its days are numbered.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Fear, Humanity

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.120, Penguin

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• What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Book, Results, Given

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• When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Opportunity, Order, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.349, Cambridge University Press

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• The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need.

  John F. Kennedy

  Government, People, Needs

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.326, Best Books on

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• Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Lying, Boys

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions

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• Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of 'I'

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Sleep, Pale, Never Sleep

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• Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sacrifice, Men, Temptation

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

  Bill Walton

  Inspiration, Soul, Culture

  "Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com.

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