Superficial Quotes - Page 14

• What Wikileaks exposed is kind of superficial in a way.

  Noam Chomsky

  Way, Wikileaks, Kind

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• So take social media; take a look at the way they're used. In a lot of ways they're used constructively; lot of things are done that couldn't be done before. On the other hand a lot of the effect of social media is to set up extremely superficial contacts amongst people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Hands, People

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• On the other hand, a lot of the internet - I don't know the percentage, but I am sure a great mass of internet use - is pretty superficial interaction amongst people. Its not necessarily a bad thing. A teenager wants to talk to her friend, that's fine, but I think it probably contributes to atomization, which is a threat to the society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teenager, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• I have been brought up in a culture where capital punishment is indeed anathema. I have always thought of myself as a principled opponent to capital punishment. However, when thinking about how the topic is handled in other cultures, in particular the American, Russian and Chinese ones, I have realised that my own tack on the issue was utterly superficial.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Other Cultures, Punishment

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• These messages that we are sending our kids and the kind of lives people lead today so superficial it seems, just a lot of phony stuff. What does it mean when you really stop and think about it's kind of stupid.

  Goose Gossage

  Stupid, Mean, Kids

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 4, 2007.

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• We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, Nice, Kind

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• As I was reading the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] I kept thinking, "Sweetie, you are dancing as fast as you can!"

  Anderson Cooper

  Book, Reading, Adventure

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are subject to a fundamental law - one may call it an iron law of Nature - which compels the various species to keep within the definite limits of their own life-forms when propagating and multiplying their kind.

  Adolf Hitler

  Law, Iron, Atheism

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.282, eKitap Projesi

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• I think that my relationship with my fans has been very special from day one. It's been very special in spite of the fact that I don't think I would ever be able to call myself a press darling. I don't think there's ever been a superficial hype machine around me.

  Josh Groban

  Thinking, Hype, Special

  "Singer Josh Groban". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 8, 2010.

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• I don't like clothes that constrict. The idea is that they should accompany and help you. There's nothing superficial about getting dressed. Clothes can give you self-confidence and help you be yourself.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Being Yourself, Self Confidence, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Four Reliances. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher; Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation; And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teacher, Buddhist, Real

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• Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Character, Temptation

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• In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

  Robert Barron

  Prayer, Mean, Mind

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• A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

  William Faulkner

  Color, Europe, Fire

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• To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Men, Individual

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.101, Routledge

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• A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.

  Gore Vidal

  Eye, Men, Would Be

  GORE VIDAL (1964). “JULIAN”

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• Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and values intact means only a superficial transformation, one that cannot be permanent or bring real betterment. It is a change of form only, not of substance, as so tragically proven by Russia.

  Emma Goldman

  Real, Mean, Russia

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.259, Courier Corporation

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• Lazy and superficial men and women do not produce superior work.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Lazy, Produce

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• For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to genuine faith, but it mercilessly examines and questions the spurious "faith" of everyday life, the human faith which is nothing but the passive acceptance of conventional opinion.

  Thomas Merton

  Mean, Acceptance, Doubt

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial.

  Kedar Joshi

  Painful Life, Life Is, Brutal

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• The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian is a holy joy; the happiness of the Christian is a serious happiness. ... it is a solemn joy, it is a holy joy, it is a serious happiness; so that, though he is grave and sober-minded and serious, he is never cold and prohibitive.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Joy, Serious

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• I never utter my real feelings about anything. My lighter, superficial side will always be too quick for the deeper side of me, and that's why it always wins.

  Anne Frank

  Real, Winning, Feelings

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.172, GENERAL PRESS

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• The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Superficial Things, Interesting, Degrees

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• It's a very organic kind of way that people are discovering it, by word of mouth, which I always think is the best way for things to grow. In terms of the affect it's been having on me, I don't even notice that. It's lovely to be able to talk about a piece of work that you're very proud of, that I think's a complex piece of work and not superficial and has depth to it.

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, People, Lovely

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks. But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.

  Dorothy West

  Fighting, Desire, Quality

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