Top 100 Quotes About Reflecting
#1. Reflecting on myself - it can be introspective, depending on if I'm standing in front of a mirror at that moment or not.
Jarod Kintz
#2. Sadness ... reflecting on the proud legacy of trust and fair play on which Reliance Industries was founded by my visionary father Dhirubhai Ambani, and how far RIL appeared to have moved away from those original values.
Anil Ambani
#3. The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.
Johann Georg Hamann
#4. Stephen came on deck reflecting with satisfaction upon his sloth, now a parlour-boarder with the Irish Franciscans at Rio, and a secret drinker of the altar-wine.
Patrick O'Brian
#5. I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
M.I.A.
#6. Eve was created to know and walk with God and to make him known to others by reflecting his character in her life. This is a woman's true path to fulfillment and meaning - the only way we will ever discover who we are and find our purpose. And it is accessible to all of us.
Carolyn Custis James
#7. The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that's been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self.
Marianne Williamson
#8. I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.
Selena Gomez
#9. Who's poorer, the one who begs for money or those who have not enough to give away? Or are they reflecting one another and the same nature?
Robin Sacredfire
#10. Those who do scientific or medical studies and have conclusions are reflecting the results preferred by those who pay them.
Richard Diaz
#11. I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
Andre Agassi
#12. The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#13. How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#14. Develop wisdom in sales by reflecting on your experience, and learning everything you can from every call.
Brian Tracy
#15. I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.
Wolfgang Tillmans
#16. Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
Aberjhani
#17. Beginning in 1962 ... the courts began to systematically secularize the nation, reflecting its view that God and the Scripture had no place in the public arena.
Rick Scarborough
#18. Chaos is peaceful when you stand quietly & watch - we are eternal observers, reflecting both tiny & vast, singing infinitely within.
Jay Woodman
#19. Remember, planning the future and reflecting on the past are valuable exercises, but doing this throughout your day interferes with what is in front of you - your present.
Travis Bradberry
#20. Water becomes clear and transparent when in a quiescent stage. How much the more wonderful will be the mind of a sage when poised in quiescence! It is the mirror of heaven and earth, reflecting the ten thousand things.
Zhuangzi
#21. Common sense in reflecting on these subjects, I assured my friend with some warmth, is merely a stupid absence of imagination and mental flexibility.
H.P. Lovecraft
#22. I live now in solitude and am able to use my time reflecting on the past and preparing for death. I cannot put away the thought of the Indians and in my ambition I fly to the Rockies.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
#23. You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any way or educate or suggest other ways of being, it can't do so by simply reflecting what's considered to be realistic.
Lynne Tillman
#24. With him, I became utterly myself as never before - and, to my astonishment, when I looked into his eyes like mirrors reflecting myself back to me, I admired the person I beheld there.
Sherry Jones
#25. Sunlight reflecting from rippled windows greatly accelerates plant growth by up to three times normal rates.
Steven Magee
#26. Ah, yes,' said Poirot. He was reflecting, and not for the first time, that seen from the back, shorts were becoming to very few of the female sex. He shut his eyes in pain.
Agatha Christie
#27. Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
Friedrich Schiller
#28. If I gaze at my beloved
she may feel embarrassed
and if I do not,
she will feel neglected.
I can see the stars reflecting
in the calm water of her face
but if I look away
I lose my clarity.
Rumi
#29. What, in the end, makes advertisements superior to criticism? Not what the moving red neon says - but the fiery pool reflecting it in the asphalt.
Walter Benjamin
#30. The sun was still out, wouldn't even start to set for an hour, but the early evening still had that "magic hour" feeling. The air was warm and breezy. The houses looked sparkling with windows reflecting the still bright sun.
Victoria Kahler
#31. Life is an unpleasant business. I have resolved to spend it reflecting on it.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#32. Without him in my life I'm a frozen pond reflecting the daylight but never absorbing its heat.
Petra F. Bagnardi
#33. The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.
Bruce Lee
#34. I fell into unconsciousness reflecting rather abstractly that I'd never even known that there were two bones in a man's forearm.
Mark Lawrence
#35. Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential ... by reacting without reflecting.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#36. I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too.
Stephanie Nielson
#37. I think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese, manga creators are making their creations everyday reflecting their own individuality, with none being the same. What is important isn't the differences between the creators but their love for manga.
Natsuki Takaya
#38. Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation ...
T. S. Eliot
#39. It's much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.
Natalie Goldberg
#40. The more you read, the more you will find your thoughts and conversation reflecting your reading, and the more you will want to read.
Nancy Wilson
#41. Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phaenomena of Nature?
Isaac Newton
#42. And last but not least, reflecting my feelings on proofreading ... excuse any pages on my websites that have misspelled words or grammatical errors ... I'm not a proofreader of any great merit.
Mark Twain
#43. My father was a proudly antisocial man who spent most of his time at a typewriter, reflecting negatively on his neighbors and society, throwing in things like "Goddamn it, you've got to be kind." The emphasis was on the Goddamn it. He was proud of the fact that I had no friends
Mark Vonnegut
#44. Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
Alexandre Dumas
#45. Culture is a window reflecting the history, culture and spiritual world of a nation, .. Cultural exchange is a bridge to enhance the mutual understanding and friendship between the people of different nations.
Hu Jintao
#46. Her face reflecting the color of her dress, she glowed even in her disappointment ... perhaps the way of her defiance to the fate.
Madhu Vajpayee
#47. Inwardly she argued with herself, reflecting that it never ended well when one did something morally questionable for the right reasons.
Lisa Kleypas
#48. On reflecting at dinner that he had done nothing to help anybody all day, he uttered these memorable and praiseworthy words: Friends, I have lost a day.
Suetonius
#49. .. after reflecting for a few moments, he added, 'I think that everything would be a lot simpler if instead of looking for the Grail or some other relic, people tried to find love. Don't you agree?
Emilio Calderon
#50. Halfway through the afternoon the sun appeared from behind the blanket of clouds left by the storm. The shining streets were transformed into mirrors, on which pedestrians walked, reflecting the amber of the sky.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#51. You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.
Cory Booker
#52. The Scottish Government's international development work began in 2005 with a £3 million budget focused solely on Malawi, reflecting the historic links between our two countries.
Nicola Sturgeon
#53. Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them - i.e., reflecting - if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.
Ray Dalio
#54. Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation.
Sergio Pinto
#55. The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.
Satish Kumar
#56. All believers can increase their commitment to God by reflecting on His faithfulness and by considering the forms such commitment should assume in their experience.
Max Anders
#57. What you are comes from the blood of those who set you on this journey. That is likewise unchangeable. What you see in the reflecting pool of truth is who you are. You cannot change that, so it is wise not to curse it. The wiser choice is to embrace it and make it your strength.
Joseph M. Marshall III
#58. Unfortunately, one mirror is as treacherous as another, reflecting at some point in every adventure the same vain unsatisfied face, and so when she asks what have I done? she means really what am I doing? as one usually does.
Truman Capote
#59. Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man.
Richard Arnold Epstein
#60. She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.
Jeffery Deaver
#61. One day liberation will come, and it won't be a day; it won't be a year; it won't be a time, a place or a condition. It will be immortality reflecting through you. What will you do then?
Frederick Lenz
#62. People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.
Ayn Rand
#63. Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
John Locke
#64. People fear getting famous just as pigs fear getting fat. Reflecting the observation that fame invites a fall just as a fattened pig invites the butcher.
Yu Hua
#65. When it came time to build a tabernacle, the Israelite women brought all their mirrors to Moses so he could use them to make God's building more beautiful. (Exodus 38:8.) They were far more interested in enjoying God's glory than reflecting on their own images.
Gwendolyn Diaz
#66. Everything was astonishing. The setting sun was illuminating each blade of grass. It was reflecting off the girl's glasses, making a halo of light around the girl's round head, setting the whole world on fire.
Kate DiCamillo
#68. I don't know anything about god except that it's not me. So, somewhere between that acceptance and doing my homework and being competitive and having ambition and loving my job and observing and reflecting my society, that's where I find the purpose. Because man needs purpose.
Tom Hardy
#69. Winning a trophy is always nice, but my personal satisfaction comes from reflecting on the passion, motivation, and determination that went into getting me there.
Tommy Hilfiger
#70. I'm just a collection of mirrors, reflecting what everyone else expects of me.
Rollo May
#71. I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.
Ian Anderson
#72. I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.
Helen Fielding
#73. Silence allows people to put thoughts into words. Some people might need several minutes to put thoughts into words. Silence may indicate the person is reflecting on experiences, and he or she may just need time to process.
Richard E. Dodge
#74. Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.
John Ralston Saul
#76. The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind.
Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi
#77. Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.
Hermann Hesse
#79. The internet is a reflection of our society and that mirror is going to be reflecting what we see.
If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.
Vint Cerf
#80. When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
Hideki Tojo
#81. Invisibility was a tricky thing to get right. It had to do with blocking the way people saw you -- with absorbing light instead of reflecting it.
Lesley Howarth
#82. Introverts prefer introversion; we tend to gain energy by reflecting and expend energy when interacting. Extroverts have the opposite preference; they tend to gain energy by interacting and expend energy while reflecting.
Laurie Helgoe
#83. We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. [They have, are and will be experienced by others as well as worse.]
William Melmoth
#84. You have to look at the past in order to learn from it and move on. I've done a lot of reflecting over the past year. And certainly, I've turned the corner and am looking more toward the future in a lot of ways.
Tiger Woods
#85. When you send out a powerful thought into the universe, you send out ripples to all parts of it which come back to you, reflecting what it is you sent out.
Stephen Richards
#86. Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now.
Helen McCrory
#87. I've found from my own experiences that the world generally gives you back what you believe about it, like a mirror reflecting our role in it.
Virginia Burges
#88. My intention has been to encourage viewers to face their prejudices about prostitution, sex and aging while reflecting on the complex and varied forms that love and loneliness can take.
Maya Goded
#89. In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#90. In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.
Richard M. Weaver
#91. The ever-new passions which consumed her gave to her life the appearance of those clouds which float in the heavens, reflecting sometimes azure, sometimes fire, sometimes the opaque blackness of the tempest, and which leave no traces upon the earth behind them but devastation and death.
Alexandre Dumas
#92. Even though on the outside we glittered like gold, inside we were almost as black as coal. Sometimes the glitter people saw was only the shattered pieces reflecting among the broken glass.
Tracy Krimmer
#93. Those called penny bags. Each of them got a brand-new penny on the bottom. The light reflecting off the penny supposed to confuse the flies, so they don't come around and bother the food, although every time I see a fly, they confused enough already. Know what I mean?" Queenie chuckled.
Laura Lane McNeal
#94. Reflecting back, we all make mistakes; we all go through our stuff - relationships, financial, all kinds of stuff - and if you can grow from that and pass that message on, it's a pretty cool thing.
Nikki Sixx
#95. There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#96. More and more, your computer monitor is a kind of one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click. Google's
Eli Pariser
#97. I am not very good at reflecting. I am a complete perfectionist and always thinking to the next thing!
Roksanda Ilincic
#98. I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.
Peter Morgan
#99. The quality of events surrounding you in any given moment in time may be reflecting specific beliefs that you hold in that moment of time.
Gregg Braden
#100. Just as dogs often come to resemble their owners, it seems that programming languages end up reflecting the temperaments and personalities of their creators in some subtle ways,
Nick Parish
