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Obvious to you is amazing to others. -- Derek Sivers
Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace. -- Baldassare Castiglione
Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics. -- Eric Temple Bell
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. -- Albert Einstein
Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie? -- Drew Carey
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. -- Isaac Asimov
Thank you, Captain Obvious." "I'm on the Senate," he reminded me. "It's Lord Obvious. -- Karen Chance
Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened. -- Christopher Walken
Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school. -- Jim Rohn
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors. -- Benjamin Graham
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. -- Confucius
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. -- Steve Jobs
Never assume the obvious is true. -- William Safire
The obvious is always least understood. -- Klemens von Metternich
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. -- Pablo Picasso
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. -- Arthur Koestler
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. -- Cynthia Ozick
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. -- Edward R. Murrow
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar. -- Anita Brookner
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. -- Eric Hoffer
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. -- Khalil Gibran
Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious. -- Bill Maher
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. -- Oscar Wilde
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. -- Fran Lebowitz
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. -- George Bernard Shaw
It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet. -- Jerry Brown
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. -- Khalil Gibran
The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. -- George Orwell
It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious. -- Anodea Judith
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. -- Andre Gide
In art, the obvious is a sin. -- Edward Dmytryk
I see no reason for recording the obvious. -- Edward Weston
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
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I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious. -- Khaled Hosseini
I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair. -- John Henrik Clarke
Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious... at least to me. -- Sharon Tate
As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs. -- Charles Francis Richter
We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible. -- Hugh Shelton
None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you. -- Harvey Mackay
Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman. -- William Moulton Marston
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? -- Dennis Prager
The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up. -- Nathan Myhrvold
My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies. -- Jim Parsons
Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have. -- Mark Cuban
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. -- Roger Bacon
Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data. -- Marcus Buckingham
I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for. -- Frank Gehry
A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you've not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That's almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious. -- Norman Foster
Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened. -- Boman Irani
I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares. -- Andre Balazs
Make subtlety obvious. -- Billy Wilder
I'm human. Isn't it obvious? -- Lauren Lola
Not all dangers are obvious. -- Leah Cypess
The obvious is obviously wrong. -- Joseph Granville
If it's obvious, it's obviously wrong. -- Joseph Granville
The great discoveries are usually obvious. -- Phil Crosby
When in doubt, do the obvious. -- Joy Browne
Evil is obvious only in retrospect. -- Gloria Steinem
Only the prophets see the obvious. -- Nelson Rodrigues
Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Nothing is as invisible as the obvious. -- Richard Farson
Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious. -- Errol Morris
Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
I am at war with the obvious. -- William Eggleston
Experts always tend to obscure the obvious. -- D. V. Ager
Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected -- George Soros
Things always become obvious after the fact -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Question everything generally thought to be obvious. -- Dieter Rams
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious. -- Simon Cowell
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy. -- William Hazlitt
Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure. -- Robert J. Sawyer
Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency. -- Helen Nielsen
Kindly remember that the obvious is always overlooked. -- Drayton Bird
Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore. -- Nicholas Sparks
You have a firm grasp of the obvious. -- Stephen Colbert
Once you know the truth, it's always obvious -- Jennifer Crusie
Success is a refined study of the obvious -- Jim Rohn
What's obvious to you is obvious to you. -- John Medina
Just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true. -- Terry Pratchett
Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious. -- Claude Chabrol
When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious. -- John Grisham
Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious. -- Alfred Bester
If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown. -- Felix Baumgartner
Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious. -- John Burdett
the inferred is always more effective than the obvious. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent. -- Al Swearengen
Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy. -- Graydon Carter
Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious. -- Mason Cooley
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska? -- John Green
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one. -- Heraclitus
A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it. -- Robert Daniel Carmichael
The obvious is better than obvious avoidance of it. -- Henry Watson Fowler
I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records. -- Boy George
It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel. -- Black Francis
If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious. -- Israel Gelfand
Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times. -- Jeff Bezos
The Universe is difficult to comprehend because it is obvious. -- Albert Einstein
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. -- John Maeda
The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious. -- Walter Darby Bannard
There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations. -- Jerry Seinfeld
It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves. -- Neale Donald Walsch
All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game. -- Viktor Korchnoi
Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We can't always take the most obvious road in life. -- Anne Shirley
I always enjoy being the obvious homunculus of the pair. -- Peter Jacobson
Make it so obvious even a computer couldn't be confused. -- Jeff Jarvis
Shouting is obvious; not talking to each other slips by. -- John Eldredge
If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves. -- Mason Cooley
You know what? The obvious is obvious for a reason. -- Paul Reiser
To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark. -- John Mellencamp
Guys are much more obvious than they think they are. -- Katherine Heigl
My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons. -- Randy Castillo

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