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Reflective thinking turns experience into insight. -- John C. Maxwell
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. -- Jean Piaget
Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done. -- John C. Maxwell
I may be a tough fellow but I have a reflective side as well. Reflective as in I'll bash your head in with a ****ing mirror. -- Thom Yorke
The heart is the best reflective thinker. -- Wendell Phillips
I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection. -- Antony Gormley
Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place. -- David Bowie
I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature. -- Dylan Moran
I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose. -- Kobe Bryant
I think that the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes. -- Christina Ricci
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. -- W. H. Auden
Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling. -- Damon Albarn
I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc. -- Nicolas Roeg
Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live? -- Jonathan Sacks
The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity. -- Deepak Chopra
I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it. -- Ellen Barkin
One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels. -- Leon Panetta
The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. -- Jean Piaget
My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference. -- Chuck Close
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn? -- Hugh Mackay
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
While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR's values and also not reflective of my own beliefs. I offer my sincere apology to those I offended. -- Ron Schiller
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. -- Maimonides
Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, 'Those who can, do, those who can't, teach,' forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books. -- Michael Ignatieff
When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society. -- Michael Bloomberg
I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument. -- John Frusciante
To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel. -- Mick Fleetwood
The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat. -- Chuck D
Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically. -- Enya
All knowledge is self-reflective. -- Jerry Uelsmann
A reflective, contented mind is the best possession. -- Zoroaster
Art has to be reflective of our society. -- David Zayas
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven. -- Washington Irving
The Republican base is not reflective of the whole country. -- David Corn
Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective. -- Randy Pausch
A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all. -- Benjamin Franklin
Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive. -- Michael Douglas
The best gift an educator can give, to get somebody to become self-reflective. -- Randy Pausch
Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something. -- Bill Hybels
No one shall deny me my own conclusions, nor my cat her reflective purr. -- Irving Townsend
Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. -- George Armitage Miller
I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics. -- Peter Singer
Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective. -- Mary Oliver
Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback. -- Warren G. Bennis
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. -- Albert Bandura
This album [Stroll] and all my songs that break barriers are more reflective of my personality. -- SonReal
A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity -- Carl F. H. Henry
The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself. -- John C. Maxwell
A religious test for entering our country is not reflective of America's fundamental values. I reject it. -- Paul Ryan
It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations. -- Carlos Castaneda
I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker. -- Madi Diaz
My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective. -- Tim Robbins
I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, and how I'm feeling. -- Ladyhawke
I look forward to the time when the membership of the Supreme Court's more reflective of the country it serves. -- Patrick Leahy
Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic. -- Brett Dennen
Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight. -- Faye Wattleton
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles. -- Emily Bronte
I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know? -- Jann Wenner
I even worry about reflective flea collars. Oh, sure, drivers can see them glow in the dark, but so can the fleas. -- Jane Wagner
The people who could most benefit from the self-reflective ego-dissolving qualities of cannabis are the ones that want it to be illegal. -- Joe Rogan
Light or luminosity is created by the way elements are juxtaposed. They become reflective and a radiance comes from putting different things together. -- Merce Cunningham
I can be calm and reflective from time to time and other times I can have a burst of energy, that's just me. -- Kendrick Lamar
I want to ask heterosexual academic feminists to do some hard analytical and reflective work. To begin, I want to say to them: -- Marilyn Frye
I want to look back. To look over my shoulder and see the Stop sign with huge reflective letters, pleading with Hannah. Stop! -- Jay Asher
Clothing, hair and make-up are just reflective of how I am feeling at any given moment and that varies from day to day. -- Mya
It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames. -- Clifford Stoll
It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work. -- Edward Hirsch
Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences -- Albert Bandura
A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw. -- John Goodlad
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing. -- Garrison Keillor
Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they're more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story. -- Stephanie Perkins
It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society. -- Peter Clewes
The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all. -- H. L. Mencken
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Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building. -- Paulo Freire
But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions. -- Clarence Thomas
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions -- Dalai Lama
As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string. -- Arthur Nersesian
What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world? -- Susan Cain
Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts. -- Jonathan Rauch
She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it. -- Alice Walker
You encounter, at its core, a subjective Reality, one based on meaning and value reflective of your own Self, not an objective universe, cold, particle-based and indifferent as science projects. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance. -- Josemaria Escriva
President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against black people in Chicago is reflective of Mr. Emmanuel's values. -- Julianne Malveaux
We need teacher educators who are hungry to learn about and implement contemporary approaches to teaching and learning in their own classrooms and who are reflective about their work with their students. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Soul, love, joy and natural beauty shines first from within. Make time for quiet reflective moments. Be still and know there is more than just Botox and pink martinis for women over 40. -- Machel Shull
If you're in a motion-capture studio, you have spherical, reflective markers, which are picked up by cameras that emit infrared - it reflects it, and then the cameras pick up the data. -- Andy Serkis
Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense. -- Andrew Coyle Bradley
The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way. -- Elle King
You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are. -- Barack Obama
It's very interesting to me that the nationalist movement in Scotland has become so positive and self-reflective rather than anti-English. The referendum in 2014 was peaceful, for all its deeply and passionately divided people. -- Sarah Hall
Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely self-reflective, and all they see is themselves wherever they go. -- Frederick Lenz
I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am. -- Mira Sorvino
...there is a danger of churning out students who are rapid processors of information but may not necessarily be more reflective, thoughtful, and able to give sustained consideration to the information that matters most. -- Karen Bohlin
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence. -- Washington Irving
It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country. -- Daniel Berrigan
It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country." -- Daniel Berrigan
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn. -- Hugh Mackay
Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become -- Minnie Maddern Fiske
When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes. -- John C. Maxwell
No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretical intuitions about these things into reflective equilibrium by way of armchair theorising. -- Hilary Kornblith

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