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• It goes without saying that it is no good having a perfect setup, perfect grip and perfect golf swing if the whole thing is misaligned. It sounds obvious but many players simply do not spend enough time getting themselves on target.

  Nick Faldo

  Golf, Player, Swings

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• The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Practice, Ncaa

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• Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should – and must – question everything generally thought to be obvious. They must have an intuition for people’s changing attitudes. For the reality in which they live, for their dreams, their desires, their worries, their needs, their living habits. They must also be able to assess realistically the opportunities and bounds of technology.

  Dieter Rams

  Dream, Attitude, Creativity

  "Dieter Rams/ Profile". designmuseum.org.

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• The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that’s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it’s true of what we need to teach.

  Alfie Kohn

  Important, Quality, Needs

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• Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

  Peter Garrett

  Cutting, Climate, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who teaches, writes drama criticism (and other things) and feels that the American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself.

  Richard Gilman

  Teacher, Drama, Writing

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• The question is still asked of women: 'How do you propose to answer the need for child care?' That is an obvious attempt to structure conflict in the old terms. The questions are rather: 'If we as a human community want children, how does the total society propose to provide for them?'.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Children, Community, Doe

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• When in doubt, do the obvious.

  Joy Browne

  Women, Doubt, When In Doubt

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• Football became my obvious metaphor as it does for many, and I began to equate this as being 'halftime' in my life. As I reflected on my professional life I realized how much time I had spent trying to make first downs and score touchdowns. My focus had now changed into trying to be more about people and serving others.

  Marc Trestman

  Football, People, Focus

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• An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Example, Patient, Dementia

  "Where Civic Republicanism and Deliberative Democracy Meet". The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 26, No. 6, In Search of the Good Society: The Work of Daniel Callahan, pp. 12-14, November/December, 1996.

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• I want to put a soul in a garment. I don't want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not perfect. You can meet somebody in one of my jackets and it can all look a bit wrong, but also human and beautiful. Cutting nonchalance into a garment is difficult, because you can't just make an oversized or an asymmetric garment - it will look ugly. Making it look natural is delicate work. If it's too obvious, then it looks fake. Balancing the garment is a painstaking task, because you have to keep in mind how the clothes move.

  Ann Demeulemeester

  Beautiful, Moving, Cutting

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• This is probably very obvious but I feel very lonely. I miss the person I want to be with the most.

  Jaejoong

  Lonely, Missing, Want

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• The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.

  Anthony Lane

  Errors, Light, Dresses

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• It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical mistakes. These are material omissions that - in our view - constitute another material breach. It is up to Iraq to prove that there is some other explanation besides the obvious one, that this declaration is just one more act of deception in a history of lies from a defiant dictator.

  John Negroponte

  Mistake, Lying, Editing

  "U.N. officials react to Blix briefing". www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.

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• It's obvious that things aren't going well over there. This is a war based on lies.

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, Lying, Deceit

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• The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up." The ecological thought "...is a vast, sprawling mesh of interconnection without a definite center or edge. It is radical intimacy, coexistence with other beings, sentient and otherwise.

  Timothy Morton

  Our World, Earth, Faces

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• When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

  Yoshio Taniguchi

  Years, Drawing, Lasts

  Yoshio Taniguchi (1996). “The Japan Architect”

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• The lesson is obvious. True missionaries concentrate on doing the work of Mark 16:15 rather than operating social-welfare programs. True missionaries serve the message of Christ, not the institutions of the church.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Welfare Programs, Church, Missionary

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Come, Let's Reach the World: Partnership in Church Planting Among the Most Unreached”, Gfa Books

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• Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Firsts, Immortality, Achieve

  Aphorisms (1905)

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• If you believe that what you’re doing will have positive results, it will— even if it’s not immediately obvious.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Believe, Changing Your Life, Results

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.31, Penguin

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• It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Healthy, Different, Individual

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.38, Cato Institute

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• The most obvious – and easiest! – way to gain perspective is to put your work away for a while.
  The truth is, we don’t know how taking a break frees up the mind, but it does: Somehow it freshens our little neurons, or perhaps it prompts the brain to create more cleverness molecules.
  If you can bear to let a short piece sit a week and a book-length work a month, do so. Longer is fine, too; some authors have abandoned manuscripts for years before unearthing them and realizing, ‘Hey, this isn’t bad,’ and renewing their energy for the project.

  Elizabeth Sims

  Book, Years, Perspective

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• There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  World, Way, Complicated

  "Welcome to the N.H.K". Book by Tatsuhiko Takimoto, 2002.

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• Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery rather that obvious description. Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding. Abstraction within realism adds zest and excitement to otherwise dull subject matter. Abstract understanding takes time and patience.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Mean, Zest

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• It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

  Lukas Foss

  Art, Discovery, Scientist

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