Superficial Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• I've never been no superficial cat.

  Bernie Mac

  Cat

  "The Mad Man of Comedy", www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I was aware of the possible biases you could get as a commercial director, like being too concerned about the technical aspects of the form rather than anything of substance. If you keep working in commercials, you can get trapped in a very superficial way of thinking. I always used commercials as an exercise for filmmaking, like going to the gym.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Exercise, Thinking, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Strong, Caring, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've spent, like, over a million dollars on that Superficial album, so you will not be getting new music from me unless you'd like to GoFundMe.

  Heidi Montag

  Albums, Dollars, New Music

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

  Miuccia Prada

  Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

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• As a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything. So I come into classroom on fire. I'm on fire for learning. I'm on fire for education, a paideia in the deepest sense of paideia, trying to get young people to shift from the superficial to the substantial, the shift from the bling-bling to letting freedom reign in their minds and hearts and souls.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Heart, Fire

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb.

  Cornel West

  Mother, Pain, Moving

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• The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.

  Anthony Standen

  Science, Views, Spirit

  Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

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• My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, like from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the night in very austere circumstances. I think then my practice became less superficial, more like the traditional definition of what meditation was: to truly find oneness.

  Karan Bajaj

  Morning, Yoga, Night

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I have somewhat lost my enthusiasm in the last years. Mainly because film students using digital video these days have not really produced anything which is more than superficial or simplistic; so I have my doubts.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Years, Doubt, Video

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come.

  Tom Robbins

  Marijuana, Thinking, Rights

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Many people who say they're looking for love are merely looking for superficial comfort. They're not looking yet for the true romantic adventure. For that entails a readiness to die to who we were, in order to be born again prepared for love, truly worthy of the romantic heights.

  Marianne Williamson

  Adventure, Order, People

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I feel that sometimes we are so distracted by superficial things, we forget what really matters: cherishing those around us.

  Syesha Mercado

  Superficial Things, Matter, Forget

  "American Idol’s Syesha Mercado: On Honesty, Acceptance, and Being Present". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?

  Daniel Libeskind

  Spiritual, Looks, Answers

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• One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and being looked at, being assessed for really superficial stuff.

  Amanda Palmer

  Jobs, Intellectual, Stuff

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I just think that if we stopped playing on the superficial level and concentrated on women in real crises throughout the world, it would be a better thing if we all stood together about the important stuff and stopped getting distracted by superficial things.

  Natalie Dormer

  Real, Thinking, Superficial Things

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In my family, Fashion was something we never talked about, it was thought of as kind of superficial.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Kind, My Family

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means, and, compared with other agencies, a relatively superficial means. Only as we have grasped the necessity of more fundamental and persistent modes of tuition can we make sure of placing the scholastic methods in their true context.

  John Dewey

  School, Mean, Agency

  John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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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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• When we have sampled much and have wandered far and have seen how fleeting and sometimes superficial a lot of the world is, our gratitude grows for the privilege of being part of something we can count on-home and family and the loyalty of loved ones. We come to know what it means to be bound together by duty, by respect, by belonging. We learn that nothing can fully take the place of the blessed relationship of family life.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Loyalty, Gratitude, Blessed

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