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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. -- Edmund Burke
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. -- Hans Hofmann
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. -- Jane Fonda
Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father. -- Nadya Suleman
Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man. -- Richard Arnold Epstein
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. -- Brigham Young
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. -- Virginia Woolf
Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last thirty years. Reflecting on the upcoming 30th anniversary of Apollo 11. -- Pete Conrad
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others. -- Charles Darwin
Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up. -- Barack Obama
Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters. -- Umberto Eco
Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation ... -- T. S. Eliot
If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only -- Louis Sachar
Reflecting back, we all make mistakes; we all go through our stuff - relationships, financial, all kinds of stuff - and if you can grow from that and pass that message on, it's a pretty cool thing. -- Nikki Sixx
Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future. -- Winston Churchill
We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience. -- John Dewey
The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself. -- Neville Goddard
God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like. -- Francis Chan
All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future -- Max Tegmark
In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light. -- Dogen
Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence. -- Rumi
The keys to the life of the heart lie in reflecting upon the Quran, being humble before Allah in secret, and leaving sins. -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator. -- John Muir
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. -- Sydney J. Harris
One day liberation will come, and it won't be a day; it won't be a year; it won't be a time, a place or a condition. It will be immortality reflecting through you. What will you do then? -- Frederick Lenz
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high -- Hideki Tojo
Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life -- toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things -- and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict. -- Greer Garson
Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well... -- Noam Chomsky
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer... -- Thomas Paine
Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud. -- Vernon Howard
Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is, because I'm living my life and not always reflecting on it, but as I edit these pages I am aware that I have an urge to see my sometimes random wandering as having a plot, a purpose guided by some underlying story. -- David Byrne
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth. -- Francis Picabia
I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me. -- M.I.A.
If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe. -- Daniel Kahneman
Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen. -- John Ralston Saul
It's like a 'chicken or the egg' thing. We're all part of the culture. We're reflecting it; we're changing it. So, yeah, I think culture is always changing. -- Roz Chast
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love. -- John Locke
Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech. -- Shelley Moore Capito
Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant? -- Marguerite Gardiner
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants. -- Henry Adams
My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life. -- Sean Paul
You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. -- Lauren Bacall
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.' -- Pete Townshend
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising. -- Barbara Januszkiewicz
I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love. -- Selena Gomez
If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then, I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection. -- Peter Lindbergh
Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something. -- Alan Rickman
The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.' -- Jennifer Grant
When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before. -- Nat Turner
With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself. -- Adam Beach
Mirrors are useless for reflecting who you are. -- Fernando A. Torres
Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels -- Matsuo Basho
Dressing up is all about reflecting how I feel. -- Blake Lively
Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing. -- Henry Mintzberg
Instead of reflecting on the past, predict the future. -- Chris Guillebeau
In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Artists also have the responsibility of reflecting the truth. -- Zoe Kravitz
Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you. -- Aberjhani
What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule. -- John Locke
I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me. -- M.I.A.
True contemplation is reflecting on the blessings of God in your life. -- Harold Klemp
I've been dreaming of mirrors. Millions of mirrors, reflecting people to death. -- Jim Steinman
Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation. -- Sergio Pinto
Inside you're like some kind of mirror, reflecting everything without absorbing it. -- Arthur J. Deikman
I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career. -- Miriam Makeba
Naming an emotion begins the process of regulating it and reflecting on it. -- Sue Johnson
Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality. -- George W. Bush
If you could stop reflecting, immediately you establish yourself in the ocean of peace. -- Nirmala Srivastava
If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ. -- Ted Cruz
They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves. -- Haruki Murakami
Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done. -- Harriet Lerner
Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth. -- John Piper
The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort. -- Terence McKenna
No matter what you seek to achieve, perspective makes a difference. All. Perspective comes from reflecting. -- Bidemi Mark-Mordi
When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done. -- Mary Douglas
Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty. -- Rumi
Much testing, much reflecting, much living must intervene before we can say, 'My soul is my own. -- Madonna Kolbenschlag
Develop wisdom in sales by reflecting on your experience, and learning everything you can from every call. -- Brian Tracy
Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding. -- Hermann Hesse
The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God. -- Erwin McManus
God is like a mirror, consistent, stable, unchanging; reflecting His image of us, that is always changing. -- Anthony Liccione
Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome. -- Samuel Richardson
We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us. -- Natalie Goldberg
The handful of corporations that own most of the media outlets have an interest in reflecting establishment views. -- Janeane Garofalo
A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror. -- Arthur Brisbane
Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself. -- Maya Angelou
As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening. -- Felicity Kendal
Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God. -- N. T. Wright
I am not very good at reflecting. I am a complete perfectionist and always thinking to the next thing! -- Roksanda Ilincic
The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting India's diversity. -- Preneet Kaur
The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting Indias diversity. -- Preneet Kaur
in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience. -- Christina Baldwin
That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky. -- Philip K. Dick
Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun. -- Walter Brueggemann
Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click. -- Eli Pariser
My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripes -- Fiona Apple
If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light. -- Subhan Zein
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. -- Walker Evans
I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you. -- Vincent de Paul
Worship starts with seeing something great and then reflecting it to the world. Let's see God so we can reflect God. -- Louie Giglio
Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open. -- Nhat Hanh
I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A person will complain about his problems, unwilling to receive solutions, while demanding attention trough a victimization, reflecting lack of responsibility. -- Mark Brightlife
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater. -- Peter Kreeft
I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people. -- Peter Morgan
There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way. -- Philip Yancey
The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way. -- Satish Kumar
I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject. -- Wolfgang Tillmans
I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare. -- Jodie Foster
Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure. -- Ken Goldberg
Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column. -- Friedrich Schiller
The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs. -- Shakti Gawain
For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back. -- Megan Smith

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