Beneath The Surface Quotes - Page 4

• Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. In fact, it can simmer away beneath the surface and lead to poor mood and energy levels, and can also cause your moods to become unstable.

  Liz Miller

  Going Away, Energy, Doe

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• Beneath the surface level of conditioned thinking in every one of us there is a single living spirit. The still small voice whispering to me in the depths of my consciousness is saying exactly the same thing as the voice whispering to you in your consciousness. 'I want an earth that is healthy, a world at peace, and a heart filled with love.' It doesn't matter if your skin is brown or white or black, or whether you speak English, Japanese, or Malayalam - the voice, says the Gita, is the same in every creature, and it comes from your true self.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Heart, Thinking, Self

  Eknath Easwaran “The Compassionate Universe: The Power of the Individual to Heal the Environment”, Nilgiri Press

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• People who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out "inner feelings" beneath the surface and expose any falsehood, and they think that it's in their inner feelings that the truth lies. But I don't think that's the truth.

  Mamoru Hosoda

  Lying, Thinking, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of get deeper into it. What's actually going on beneath the surface is not really dictated by or related to the surface genre. It's more about what's going to happen between the characters and what's taking place in the story.

  Charlie Jane Anders

  Character, Skins, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

  Christopher Rice

  Reality, Thinking, Needs

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• Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.

  John Dieterich

  Variation, Elements, Realizing

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I would like to mention some preparations that were required of me. The first preparation is to take a right attitude toward life. This means, stop being an escapist! Stop being a surface liver who stays right in the froth of the surface. There are millions of these people, and they never find anything really worthwhile. Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found. That's what we are doing here now.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Attitude, Mean, Reality

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.5, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Reality, Faces, Found

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.9, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Father, Artist

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• How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs mere talcum compared to the explosive possibilities in the most commoplace domestic situation.

  Margaret Halsey

  Thinking, Kegs, Sometimes

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• Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than your right to know how your food is produced. But beneath the surface, a revolution is growing.

  John Robbins

  Important, Growing, Agribusiness

  John Robbins, Ocean Robbins (2013). “Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!”, p.13, Conari Press

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• The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Civilization, Waiting

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• As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front atheists with the indifferent nonbelievers, you end up with a much larger group of people than Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Unitarians put together.

  Natalie Angier

  Buddhist, Atheist, People

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• Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

  Christophe Agou

  Photography, Art, Filmmaking

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• Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Plato, Asking, Speech

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.5, Psychology Press

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• Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us, assumptions around which we build organizations, create economies, form nations and religions. These assumptions become habitual, mental habits that drive us, confuse us and prevent our responding intelligently to the challenges we face every day.

  David Bohm

  Organization, Space, Empathy

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• Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a whole. Indeed, something greater than a phenomenon confined to art can be discerned shimmering here beneath the surface - shimmering not with light but with an ominous crimson glow.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Light, Views

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• There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the surface of the culture and finding those timeless, eternal truths that the whole Christian enterprise is rooted in. And one of those is that you don't come to God at 180 miles an hour.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Christian, Diving Deep, Church

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Criticism, Critics

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• The Glittering World is a stunning phantasmagoria drawn from the world just beneath the surface, aswarm with great and memorable characters and a plot that twists and turns as it hurtles forward. A grand debut. One taste, and you'll be addicted.

  Keith Donohue

  Memorable, Character, Twists

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• Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

  Al Gore

  Eugenics, Civilization, Energy

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.234, Routledge

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