Reflection Quotes - Page 15

• I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was so unprepared for such a strange sight that I was really petrified with astonishment.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Sight, Doubt, Astonishment

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• I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to see how it can become an intense personal experience. Manila can be chaotic and spiritual, dirty and divine, gritty and gorgeous all at once. If you don't find beauty and poetry here, you will never find it anywhere.

  Carlos Celdran

  Spiritual, Believe, Dirty

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• It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

  Alan Pardew

  Europe, Clubs, France

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• What are friends for? They are the ultimate reflection of yourself. Always surround yourself with people who inspire you and return the favor by giving them the best of you.

  Jenny McCarthy

  People, Giving, Inspire

  FaceBook post by Jenny McCarthy from Apr 06, 2012

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• I like women who look like me. Generally, you're attracted to women who look like you, because the most beautiful thing in nature is your own reflection.

  Terrence Howard

  Beautiful, Looks, Like You

  "Howard's Den". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. August 1, 2007.

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• I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.

  Courtney Love

  Rap, Mean, Thinking

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• The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal. But he is also a crime fighter. That makes him an extremely potent character to personify the hypocrisy of a culture that is both moralistic and corrupt.

  Rupert Everett

  Character, Interesting, Hypocrisy

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• There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

  Nick Lachey

  Song, Couple, Writing

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• I truly am the reflection of perfection.

  Ricky Martin

  Perfection

  "The Apprentice: Grace Dent's TV OD". www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated, every slight imperfection a new delicacy.

  Lydia Lunch

  Glasses, Mirrors, Self

  Lydia Lunch (1997). “Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary”, Creation Publishing Group

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• The milestone of 100 episodes is a reflection of the amazing work and dedication of the entire Clone Wars cast and crew. Being a part of this production has been an honor and privilege that has changed my life forever.

  Ashley Eckstein

  War, Dedication, Forever

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• Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely sees in anthropology. Lifeworlds, unsurprisingly, is no exception. The several essays included here fit into an impressive whole that set out a compelling case for a type of ethnography of which Jackson is one of the masters. The writing is strong and the critical reflections impressive. This book defines an approach to anthropology that is resonant enough to challenge the leading models of our time.

  Arthur Kleinman

  Strong, Philosophy, Book

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• B*tch: a reflection of people’s lack of creativity & inability to acknowledge & embrace a powerful woman; a woman who won’t comply.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Powerful, Creativity, People

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• A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Dirty, Knights, Feet

  Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We usually recognize a beginning. Endings are more difficult to detect. Most often, they are realized only after reflection. Silence. We are seldom conscious when silence begins—it is only afterward that we realize what we have been a part of. In the night journeys of Canada geese, it is the silence that propels them. Thomas Merton writes, “Silence is the strength of our interior life.… If we fill our lives with silence, then we will live in hope.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Writing, Night, Journey

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.193, Vintage

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• Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Decision, Information, Imperfect

  Donald Rumsfeld (2011). “Known and Unknown: A Memoir”, p.905, Penguin

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• I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent.

  Chris Burden

  Children, Tools, Use

  Interview with Sonia Campagnola and Valentina Sansone, www.flashartonline.com. 2009.

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• It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Waiting, Trying, Looks

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• By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

  Edward Abbey

  Heartache, Joy, Age

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

  Albert Bandura

  Thinking, People, Understanding

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Strong, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Demand, Chess, Serious

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• My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Moving, Knowing

  "Transported by the Images of Tarkovsky" by Brad Brevet, www.comingsoon.net. March 12, 2013.

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• Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.

  Alain Badiou

  Art, Real, Infinity

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• We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that once with firmness Could grasp the axe and blade, Now move with trembling motion, By strength of nerve decayed. The change in form and feature And furrows on the cheek Of Time's increasing volume, In plain, round numbers speak. And thus, as in a mirror's Reflection, we were told, With stereotyped impressions, The fact of growing old.

  Eliza R. Snow

  Moving, Mirrors, Hands

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