Obvious Quotes - Page 39

• It turns out the population issue is an easier thing to deal with than the consumption issue. Some obvious extremes in consumption we can deal with. The standard cure for a stuttering economy is to go out and buy an SUV and three more refrigerators. That's obviously not the way to go.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Issues, Population, Three

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might be meeting that person's manager backstage an hour later.

  Stephin Merritt

  Criticism, Say Anything, Records

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

  Umberto Eco

  Opinion, Produce, Newspapers

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.

  Edwin Catmull

  Growing Up, School, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• America must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Government, America, Matter

  ""America Must Listen"". Interview with Martin Doerry, www.spiegel.de. September 24, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Drawing, Style, Comic

  Source: www.believermag.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I try to make that tension almost stupidly overt in my projects, almost ridiculously so. I keep coming back to the same obvious points again and again.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Trying, Projects, Coming Back

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!

  Tom Peters

  Passion, Issues, Care

  4 Copy quote

• When the Spirit of God comes into us, He wants to be Himself in us. He wants His energy to be poured through us. He wants His wisdom to be deposited in our hearts. He wants His instinct and nature to be evident and obvious in you.He wants us to see what He is looking at, to feel what He feels, to know what He knows, to work with His projects, see life the way He sees it, get His ideas and know His opinion about yourself and others.

  T. B. Joshua

  Heart, Ideas, Energy

  198 Copy quote

• I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.

  Sergio De La Pava

  Tables, Boxes, Jury

  Sergio De La Pava (2012). “A Naked Singularity: A Novel”, p.82, University of Chicago Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

  Susan Meissner

  Girl, Kindness, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

  Susan Meissner

  Able, Flaws, Divine

  4 Copy quote

• Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.

  Linda Dillow

  Husband, Everyday, Important

  Linda Dillow (2011). “What's It Like to Be Married to Me?: And Other Dangerous Questions”, p.19, David C Cook

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• People like to think the worst. They like to have hushed gossip sessions and point their fingers at someone's problems that are more obvious than their own.

  Marcia Lynn McClure

  Thinking, People, Gossip

  4 Copy quote

• Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions. Ryan MacDonald's glorious shards of prose are both lurid and blazing, and together they comprise an anthology of complex feelings-dream-like, vivid, and never, ever obvious.

  Chris Bachelder

  Dream, Feelings, Together

  4 Copy quote

• As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

  John Caudwell

  Years, Nine

  4 Copy quote

• As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If sugar is the methamphetamine of processed food ingredients, with its high-speed, blunt assault on our brains, then fat is the opiate, a smooth operator whose effects are less obvious but no less powerful.

  Michael Moss

  Powerful, Drawing, Brain

  7 Copy quote

• But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Regret, Asking Yourself Why, Answers

  4 Copy quote

• It's more like there are some really obvious things that are different and then lots and lots of smaller things, lots of things about who lives and who dies, civilizations that rose and fell, all the way down to individual characters. That becomes the state of where you left your galaxy. The endings have a lot more sophistication and variety in them.

  Casey Hudson

  Character, Obvious Things, Civilization

  4 Copy quote

• Invention and entrepreneurship isn't about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something they understand. For at least ten years after Ford started building cars, people called them horseless carriages. It wasn't obvious to call it a car. They used to call the radio 'the wireless.' Innovation is much more about changing people and their perceptions and their attitudes and their willingness to accept change than it is about physics and engineering.

  Dean Kamen

  Attitude, Technology, Years

  6 Copy quote

• You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Friendship, Success, Lonely

  4 Copy quote

• In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

  Vince Poscente

  Nature, Lakes, Feet

  Vince Poscente (2002). “Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery”, Invinceaility Series

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first as erroneous, bad, or foolish. Later it may be seen as obvious, something self-evident to all. Only still later does it receive its final evaluation as a creative contribution. It seems clear no contemporary mortal can satisfactorily evaluate a creative product at the time it is formed, and this statement is increasingly true the greater the novelty of the creation.

  Carl Rogers

  Art, Ideas, Discovery

  13 Copy quote

• Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial place in the culture. For obvious reasons, the culture cannot endorse this behavior, even as it is in thrall to it.

  Luc Sante

  Self, Criminals, Essentials

  Source: www.believermag.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Doe, Genius

  8 Copy quote