Reflection Quotations | Page 8

Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.

Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

Anything that happens with the team is a reflection of myself. Any coach puts it on his shoulders when a team comes in and beats your team, regardless of whether you lost by one or 20.

Any success this program has had has been a direct reflection on his tireless effort. I'm extremely happy and feel fortunate to be able to work with him.

An immediate, overpowering, almost mystic sense of relief took shape within me. I felt suddenly sure everything was going to be all right. This was something quite apart from even the most cursory reflection upon strategic implications involved.

An increase in students is a positive for our school, ... We hope it is both a reflection of growth in our district, as well as confidence in the education we provide.

The bottom line is the attendance is a direct reflection of the product we've provided. Right now going to a Duquesne basketball game is not the fashionable thing to do. We haven't given our fans much to cheer about recently.

The great thing about it is that this team is a great reflection of its head coach, they emulate him to a 'T' in certain respects. Especially when there's some adversity and this is a very tough time.

The group is an affirmation that our program is moving in the right direction. It's all part of building a program. It's also a reflection of the NCAA rules that make it more difficult for junior college players to come in and be immediately eligible. We're very pleased with their commitment to academic success and their position flexibility.

The Guru has shown me the unseen Mansion of the True Lord. His Mansion is eternal and unchanging; it is not a mere reflection of Maya.

The frequency of outbreaks is a reflection of the lack of a surveillance system.

The futures are higher this morning because the markets don't really see anything happening. If nothing happens we'll probably get a relief rally. Today is a day of reflection for everybody. It's also a shortened trading day, so volume is expected to be light.

The e-card is really a reflection of a trend in pre-paid cards. It's worry-free for the students and faster for us to process than checks. This helps us minimize paper usage.

The French back three have shown up well and it's a reflection of the way the team's going,

The generosity exhibited by Mr. Charles' estate is a great reflection on him and his son's memory, and truly embodies the thoughtful, caring spirit of community that has come to define St. Charles.

The idea of the all-new FUSE Sports Coupe is a reflection of the boundless limits and creative envelope that embodies all the vital personalization components of a Scion product. Since the launch of Scion three years ago, designers have learned a great deal about what inspires and motivates Scion buyers through its unique vehicle lineup and instilled them into the FUSE.

The ideas I proposed today go beyond immediate U.S. policy concerns. They are a reflection of the enduring concerns that led to the establishment of the IMF itself.

The housing market is likely to do less well, but that happens as resources are shifting back to areas where there's more remuneration -- such as manufacturing and services. That's how the system works -- rising rates are a reflection of how the economy is going to do.

The entire city of Rome has gathered symbolically for this moving moment of reflection and prayer.

The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.

The life you are leading is simply a reflection of your thinking.

The major reason for our score is we had four of our five seniors leave school early last year to chase their dream of playing professionally. I'm not sure the score is a true reflection to the commitment and success we've had when it comes to education in our basketball program.

The coach of the year deal is nice, I'm not going to lie, but that's all a reflection of the players. That's the way it always works. If you have good players, you have a good chance to win those things. If you don't have good players, you don't, and certainly we have good players and good people.

The comments attributed to me in the press on Tuesday are not an accurate reflection of my view of the fans, or what I said,

They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.

When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically changed by the mere fact that you're looking at it. The way I see it, if you try to study your emotions on a microscopic level, the best you can do is understand how it feels to hold the magnifying glass.

The best way to create a purposeful life is to allow the soul's decision to precede the body's action. One does not do something in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, therefore, does certain things in certain ways. The actions of the body were meant to be reflections of a state of being, not attempts to attain a state of being.

Your life is not about what you are doing. Yet, it is true that what you are doing is often a reflection of what your life is about.

Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.

If I were doing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member, the United States, because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world. All international laws are invalid, meaningless attempts to constrict American power.

Quite Franc-ly, I think I am an asset to this world we live in. I know that if I didn’t exist, there would be some truly upset people just waiting for me. A life without Franco is like a kitten without fur. That’s what my reflection told me.

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

What we see in the outer is but a reflection of the inner, because we surround ourselves with a picture of our own beliefs. In other words, we manifest in general what we seriously think and believe. So if we want to find out what our habitual thinking is like, we have but to look around us and ask ourselves what we really see.

You can see that dollar/Canada's had trouble going below C$1.15. I think that's a reflection of the fact that the statement was somewhat less hawkish, and traders are less sure about the course of monetary tightening in Canada.

When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.

These humanitarian missions are a reflection of the sentiments of solidarity of the people of Mexico with the U.S. population,

In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few treacherous supports--the feigned compassion of one, the flattery of a second, the civilities of a third, the friendship of a fourth--they all deceive, and bring the mind back to retirement, reflection, and books.

This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers." Not for want of trying, thought Madrigal. "Perhaps it is a reflection of the night sky," he suggested, "skimmed from a pond?" She supposed that he was being poetic. erotic, even. In return, as unerotically as possible- more like complaining of a stain that wouldn't come out-she said, "Yes, my lord. I went for a dip, and the reflection clung.

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.

Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our tendencies to engage in particular control dramas, even how we might work through these dramas with these parents and go on to be prepared for what we want to accomplish.

The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms of reflection.

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

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.

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape

...every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

Convince us of our errors of doctrine, if we have any, by reason, by logical arguments, or by the Word of God, and we will be ever grateful for the information, and you will ever have the pleasing reflection that you have been instruments in the hands of God of redeeming your fellow beings from the darkness which you may see enveloping their minds.

Have you said 'I LOVE YOU' to * Yourself * today? If YOU Haven't, then you can certainly imagine how many others haven't. The World is simply a reflection of who we are. Perhaps it's time to Fully Embrace and Love the One you see in the mirror. This 'Reflection' is The Greatest Gift we can give to each other. Infinite Love to All.

Maybe I had a 'secret identity,' but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as 'me.' The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.

International Yoga Day is a reflection of the largest knowledge based peoples' movement the world has ever seen.

Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana is a reflection of how rich India's poor are at heart. Without any obligation to put any money in the 0 balance accounts, they didn't open an empty account.

Today when someone shakes hands with Modi & looks into his eyes, they don't see Modi, but the reflection of 125 crore Indians.

Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.

Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing we do is a reflection of our own personal value system. What do we mean by values? Our values are what we want out of life. No one is born with a set of values. Except for our basic physiological needs such as air, water, and food, most of our values are acquired after birth.

As man reaches out toward the twenty-first century, he will learn to be suspicious of all ideas that are not formulated so that they can be tested by observation. He will realize that the history of human thought shows that the ideas of which we are surest are the ones we most need to test. He will realize that his common sense only mirrors his training and experience. What seems natural and right to him is usually a reflection of the conditions under which he spent his first decade of life.

The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect. But in common sense this light does not return upon itself by critical reflection, and is not perfected by what we shall learn to know as a scientific habit.

Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, 'I will do this, but I don't think I shall succeed in it.' Thus they hinder themselves in their path. Man does not know that every thought makes an impression on the consciousness and on the rhythm with which the consciousness is working. According to that rhythm that reflection will come true and happen; and a man proves to be his own enemy by his ignorance of these things.

These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.

If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.

Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it. Once named, the world in its turn reappears to the namers as a problem and requires of them a new naming. People are not built in silence, but in word, in work, in action-reflection.

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

For me, it was a great opportunity to just play here. This award is a reflection of how this team embraced me. I'm just so happy to be here.

It's just a reflection of general concerns that the U.S. (economy) is heading towards a hard landing rather than a soft landing.

It's just a reflection of what's happening all over the country.

Accusations of genocide are a very sensitive issue and we are attempting to deal with it as such. The accusations are made against the Ottoman regime and are no reflection on the modern Turkish state or Turkish people. I have met to discuss the issue with a range of representatives from the Turkish community and agreed to host a seminar for them to present their view on this period of history.

It's the biggest job in football and we would not stand in his way if he wanted to take it. We're the only team to get a win and a draw against Chelsea this season which speaks volumes for his tactical ability. It's a great reflection on him and Charlton that he's linked with the job. I'd personally like to see an Englishman in the job next, and the fact is that Alan's one of the best English coaches there is.

It is very special in this community to be selected by my fellow coaches. We have some great coaches here, and that is obvious. But it is absolutely a reflection on our players and my staff. No question.

It is very tough to score 2,000 points. Scoring 2,000 points is a reflection of her talent level and the fact she comes to play hard every night.

It's the continuing theme of the easing in prices that we've seen in the last nine months. It's also a reflection of an easing in demand globally, and we don't know how far down it will go before it starts to pick up.

It's the first positive reflection of the fact that over the past year there's been a turnaround in wages. People are happy to take their rising income and spend it.

It's obviously a reflection of the programs we have in place and the improvement in our in-store execution -- but don't underestimate the impact of the unseasonably mild weather we had in the fourth quarter.

It's no reflection on the coaches or the teams.

It's truly a reflection of the people you surround yourself with. I empower them. I ask them to work as hard as they can and give them as much credit as I can and if anything goes wrong in the organization, it's my fault.

It's a real reflection of the respect that I have, and that many of our people have, for Kevin as a strong leader, ... There's a lot of great technical talent in that division.

It's a reflection of strong U.S. demand. Growth in Europe and Japan is certainly going to help, but until domestic demand slows, we're not going to see a big turnaround in the trade deficit.

It's a great time to reinvest in our company, ... This action is yet another reflection of our commitment to enhance shareholder value.

It's a great time to reinvest in our company. This action is yet another reflection of our commitment to enhance shareholder value.

Assembly of the first F-35 is our most visible achievement to date. Initiation of electrical power and arrival of the F135 Engine, slated for installation in February, were also significant achievements for the program. We have already started major assemblies on the first three STOVL aircraft, which all incorporate the weight reductions and structural improvements of the updated 'optimized' design. Assembly of the first optimized CTOL aircraft also is under way. Most recently, the F-35 program was approved to proceed to the Air System Critical Design Review for the F-35 STOVL and CTOL variants, Feb. 14-17, a positive reflection of the program's developmental progress.

The numbers continue to be a reflection of name recognition more than anything else, and they probably won't change all that much until the campaign heats up in the months ahead.

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That's partly a reflection of short vacations, ... My guess is that people who take a month off and travel experience longer lasting benefits than people who take three days off and work while they're away.

It's more trouble for the suppliers. Partly, it's a reflection of the fact that Ford and GM are shrinking to reckon with lower market share. And so there's less business to go around for the suppliers.

That's a direct reflection of what we think the resources need to be to get us in the direction we should go in for the next few years.

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