Reflection Quotes - Page 8

• Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

  Steven Biko

  Attitude, Black, Matter

  "I Write What I Like: Selected Writings". Book by Steven Biko edited by Aelred Stubbs, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1978.

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• So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

  Sidney Poitier

  Positive, Responsibility, Way

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• Remember, passing judgment on someone else's character, is only a reflection of your own.

  Demi Lovato

  Character, Remember, Judgment

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• Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

  Epictetus

  Silly, Achievement, May

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• The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Reading, Book, Fire

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.104

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• My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

  John Lennon

  Hippie, Artist, People

  John Lennon, Wulf Herzogenrath, Dorothée Hansen (1995). “John Lennon: drawings, performances, films”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.

  Edmund Spenser

  Wise, Men, Blow

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• It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Men, Goal

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• Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

  Denis Diderot

  Creativity, Mean, Profound

  John Hope Mason, Denis Diderot (1982). “The irresistible Diderot”

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• With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Happy, Determination

  George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

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• It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

  A.C. Grayling

  Believe, People, Judging

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• A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Character, People, Growth

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.158, Courier Corporation

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• And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Nice, Survival, Way

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• I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

  Sidney Poitier

  Use, Chosen, Values

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• Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

  Cesar Chavez

  Character, Growth, Language

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• If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

  Alberto Manguel

  Library, Reader, Ifs

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.106, Vintage Canada

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• Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Good Night, Loneliness, Great Night

  "Lost souls". Book by Poppy Z. Brite, 1992.

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• There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

  J. K. Rowling

  Echoes, Doors, Years

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.39, Pottermore

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• how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

  Robert Browning

  Sweet, Mad, Nostalgia

  'Confessions' (1864) st. 9

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• No - the light in Tamani's eyes was much more than a reflection. It was the fire that melted her anger and devastated her resolve, every single time she saw it.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Eye, Fire, Light

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• It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

  John Henry Newman

  Decision, Want, Chance

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• American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Cinema, Film, American Capitalism

  Sergei Eisenstein (1964). “Film form: essays in film theory, and The film sense”

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• Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mind, Body, Might

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 23, 2009

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• Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Order, Doubt, Criticism

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