Reflection Quotes - page 3

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start. (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. View quote
Rudolf Arnheim
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives. View quote
Tracy Kidder
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
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. View quote
Sidney Poitier
What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves. View quote
Charles de Lint
It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it the finger of that Almighty Hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the Revolution. View quote
James Madison
To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what's at stake... View quote
Jean-Paul Marat
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. View quote
Thomas Paine
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis. (Umberto Eco)
You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. View quote
Alexander Pope
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective context - which presupposes, of course, that words are used to convey information about the idea and the context. However, none of this means that pictures function as illustrations of an idea: ultimately, they are the idea. Nor is the verbal formulation of the idea a translation of the visual: it simply bears a certain resemblance to the meaning of the idea. It is an interpretation, literally a reflection. View quote
Gerhard Richter
No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection. View quote
Françoise Sagan
Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it. View quote
Paulo Freire
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. View quote
O. Henry
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. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
My reflection when I first made myself master of the central idea of the Origin was, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." (Thomas Henry Huxley)
A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness. View quote
Gloria Estefan
But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of. View quote
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection, we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives. View quote
Jared Diamond
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. View quote
Steve Biko