Superficial Quotes - Page 22

• Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

  Isabel Allende

  Ideas, Information, Blogging

  Interview with Priya George, bigthink.com. May 3, 2010.

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• I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.

  Lou Reed

  Eagles, Views, Style

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• I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.

  Amber Heard

  Beautiful, Powerful, Women

  "Amber Heard THE RUM DIARY Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.

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• You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.

  Ian Kelsey

  Shallow, Exterior, Deep Down

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• We are not separate. Our sense of separateness is superficial and exist only in the physical dimension. In our human element, we are not separate; we’re very much connected. Every other human being is just as precious as we are, and worthy of as much respect and love and consideration. This understanding needs to manifest in our conduct in each moment. This is the part of the Work that will transform you.

  A. H. Almaas

  Understanding, And Love, Needs

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• The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

  Jane Jacobs

  Mean, Profound, Want

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

  Petrarch

  Book, Jewels, Purple

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• There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.

  Andy Grove

  Senior, Zero, Devil

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• Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Spontaneity, Empty

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• Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.

  Johnny Depp

  Looking Forward, Wells, Artificial

  "Johnny Depp, Director Wally Pfister and Writer Jack Paglen Talk TRANSCENDENCE, Artificial Intelligence, the Frankenstein Archetype, BLACK MASS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 17, 2014.

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• Tom Walls' buddies remain an isolated minority, except during times of economic or social stress, when a mass following develops to blame cranky sociopaths for the problems besetting society. If it weren't for brown-nosing evil firebrands, he would have no friends. The ideas backing up his rejoinders are extremely superficial and sex-crazed.

  Linda Chavez

  Sex, Wall, Stress

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• I have always found men who were funny, irresistible. It's rare that I ever based love on looks or superficial things, but it a guy made me laugh-and that didn't mean he had to be in comedy professionally - I was hooked.

  Gilda Radner

  Mean, Men, Superficial Things

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• Superficial goals lead to superficial results

  Attila the Hun

  Goal, Results

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• Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Spring, Past, Delight

  H. P. Lovecraft (1999). “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories”, p.16, Penguin

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• When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

  Antonio Porchia

  Order, Solitude, Needs

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity. Let us ask the Lord to help us see through the superficial glitter of this season, and to discover behind it the child in the stable in Bethlehem, so as to find true joy and true light.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Children, Humility, Light

  "Pope calls for worshipers to remember 'essence' of Christmas", www.cnn.com. March 29, 2012.

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• We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Differences, People, Wish

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• The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Equality, Race

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• The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power.

  Albert J. Nock

  Ideas, Roots, Serious

  "Our Enemy, The State". Book by Albert Jay Nock, Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Press, 1950.

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• I'm almost reluctant to say it because it sounds superficial, but when you lose your hair, it just affects the way that you look at yourself in the mirror. You feel less feminine, pretty or desirable, and it's not an easy thing to go through.

  Joan Lunden

  Mirrors, Hair, Sound

  "Joan Lunden reveals battle with breast cancer". www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2014.

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• We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Fear, Men, Imagination

  "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1872.

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• A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in all its parts-which the superficial man, who leaves his work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

  William Matthews

  Art, Pride, Men

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• I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Winning, Overcoming

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.331, Hachette UK

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• The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

  Henry James

  Art, Writing, Mind

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• The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

  Matthew Collings

  Art, Mass Culture, Sound

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