Superficial Quotes - Page 22

• Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Spontaneity, Empty

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• Tom Walls' buddies remain an isolated minority, except during times of economic or social stress, when a mass following develops to blame cranky sociopaths for the problems besetting society. If it weren't for brown-nosing evil firebrands, he would have no friends. The ideas backing up his rejoinders are extremely superficial and sex-crazed.

  Linda Chavez

  Sex, Wall, Stress

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• I have always found men who were funny, irresistible. It's rare that I ever based love on looks or superficial things, but it a guy made me laugh-and that didn't mean he had to be in comedy professionally - I was hooked.

  Gilda Radner

  Mean, Men, Superficial Things

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• You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.

  Ian Kelsey

  Shallow, Exterior, Deep Down

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• The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Liars, Candid Camera, Cameras

  Lincoln Kirstein (2012). “Walker Evans: American Photographs: Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition”, The Museum of Modern Art

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• I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.

  Jeanloup Sieff

  Believe, Serious, Defense

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• Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.

  Humphry Davy

  Thinking, Profound, Mind

  Sir Humphry Davy, J. D., John DAVY (M.D., F.R.S.) (1851). “Salmonia: or, Days of fly fishing ... By an Angler i.e. Sir Humphry Davy . Third edition. With plates”, p.168

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• Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.

  Julian Barbour

  People, Profound, Ordinary

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• Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

  Isabel Allende

  Ideas, Information, Blogging

  Interview with Priya George, bigthink.com. May 3, 2010.

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• A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Self, Age, World

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self”, p.247, North Atlantic Books

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• I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.

  Lou Reed

  Eagles, Views, Style

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• Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.

  Johnny Depp

  Looking Forward, Wells, Artificial

  "Johnny Depp, Director Wally Pfister and Writer Jack Paglen Talk TRANSCENDENCE, Artificial Intelligence, the Frankenstein Archetype, BLACK MASS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 17, 2014.

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• Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Spring, Past, Delight

  H. P. Lovecraft (1999). “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories”, p.16, Penguin

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• When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

  Antonio Porchia

  Order, Solitude, Needs

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.

  Edith Hamilton

  Hard Work, Dreary, Hard

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• Superficial goals lead to superficial results

  Attila the Hun

  Goal, Results

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• The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

  Henry James

  Art, Writing, Mind

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• I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Winning, Overcoming

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.331, Hachette UK

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• The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power.

  Albert J. Nock

  Ideas, Roots, Serious

  "Our Enemy, The State". Book by Albert Jay Nock, Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Press, 1950.

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• The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Equality, Race

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• The process of change does not occur on superficial levels, through mere 'positive thinking.' It involves exploring, discovering, and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes toward life.

  Shakti Gawain

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Doe

  Shakti Gawain (2016). “Creative Visualization - 40th Anniversary Edition: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life”, p.19, New World Library

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• Our churches are filled with Christians who are idling in intellectual neutral. As Christians, their minds are going to waste. One result of this is an immature, superficial faith. People who simply ride the roller coaster of emotional experience are cheating themselves out of a deeper and richer Christian faith by neglecting the intellectual side of that faith.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Cheating, Emotional

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• The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Views, Christ, Satisfied

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Mornings and Evenings with Spurgeon”, p.647, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Differences, People, Wish

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• Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity. Let us ask the Lord to help us see through the superficial glitter of this season, and to discover behind it the child in the stable in Bethlehem, so as to find true joy and true light.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Children, Humility, Light

  "Pope calls for worshipers to remember 'essence' of Christmas", www.cnn.com. March 29, 2012.

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