Reflection Quotes

Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

I'm a reflection of the community.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.

But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.

On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.

I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and is a reflection of who they are.

The older you get, the more you realize that the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself.

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.

The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.

I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

I could have just received royalty checks every month by lending my name to a collection, but I didn't want to do that. My name is a reflection of me.

It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.

Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.

Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

The dog is a reflection of your energy, of your behavior. You have to ask, 'What am I doing?' That's the right question to ask.

Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely.

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator.

Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.

I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.

The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.

'Quantum Conundrum' is a direct reflection, not just of me, but of our entire team. It has a little bit of all of our personalities in it.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.