Reflection Quotes — Page 35

WP

Author and Speaker

“Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life.”

Character Blow Reflection

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Author, Poet, Essayist

“What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.”

Order Humility Reflection

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Salvador Bernal

Artist

“Because of his supernatural outlook, he could always work very calmly and effectively and finish things on time. This was a reflection of the reality of a harmonious and attractive blend of prayer and action. It clearly showed that the sensibilities of a contemplative soul in no way lead to agitation or nervousness.”

Prayer Work Reflection

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Rachel Stevens

Singer

“I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.”

Style Reflection Dresses

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Taylor Swift

Singer, Songwriter

“If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we have…and the thing we’ve seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirror, so obviously that’s going to be our least favourite thing.”

Thinking Mirrors Reflection

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

“The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.”

Self Reflection Track

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

“Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.”

Mean Self Reflection

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

“And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self.”

Believe Moving Reflection

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.”

Years Book Reflection

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Vladimir Nabokov

Novelist

“I have no ear for music. When I attend a concert, I endeavor gamely to follow the sequence and relationship of sounds but cannot keep it up for more than a few minutes. Visual impressions, reflections of hands in lacquered wood, a diligent bald spot over a fiddle, take over, and soon I am bored beyond measure by the motions of the musicians.”

Hands Reflection Bored

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Reggie Watts

Comedian, Musician

“Obviously, there's all sorts of life happening all around us, but on a human level, I'm just interested in people making informed decisions. You know, increasing their awareness. And also, trying to encourage people to be more fascinated with information and science and knowledge of all sorts, instead of, you know, it's a generalization, but the encouragement by society, the reflections that society gives us, which is media, television, art - anything, really.”

Art Reflection Encouragement

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William Wordsworth

Poet

“On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude”

Men Reflection Acceptance

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