Reflecting Back Quotes

#1. For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back.

Megan Smith

#2. I think that it's very important to be with someone who makes you feel like the best version of yourself. In some sense, your partner is a mirror, and you have to like what they're reflecting back at you.

Lena Dunham

#3. Swallowing, he peered down at Noelle, floored by the sheer calm reflecting back at him. "You okay, babe?"
She rolled her eyes. "Of course. What do you think I am, a pansy-ass damsel who weeps at the first sign of trouble?

Elle Kennedy

#4. Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.

John Piper

#5. All too often the church holds up a mirror
reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a
different way.

Philip Yancey

#6. Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.

Nadya Suleman

#7. Friends have been true mirrors to me, showing me myself, reflecting back to me an ugly spot in my soul, and reminding me of something good I had thought or done when I couldn't remember.

Rosalie De Rosset

#8. If you are curious as to what your future may hold, you can look into a mirror. What is reflecting back? Does a sparkle in your eyes indicate excitement about new adventures and opportunities? Does a smile on your lips portray an inner happiness and abundant goodwill towards others?

John Templeton

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done.

Harriet Lerner

#12. But I encourage you to swallow your pride and hear your friends out, to look at the image of yourself they're reflecting back to you. It might be useful. It might piss you off.

Cheryl Strayed

#13. By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.

Shakti Gawain

#14. Even thirty years later, reflecting back on the competition, Jobs cast it as a holy crusade: "IBM was essentially Microsoft at its worst. They were not a force for innovation; they were a force for evil. They were like ATT or Microsoft or Google is." Unfortunately

Walter Isaacson

#15. Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech.

Shelley Moore Capito

#16. I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

M.I.A.

#17. There is no separate entity that could be enlightened or unenlightened. There are only innumerable expressions of the One Being (which we call people, animals, forms), mirror-like facets, reflecting being-ness back to itself.

Enza Vita

#18. As Rafe watched the hovercopter circle back, I saw that his aqua eyes had a golden sheen, like sunlight reflecting off the surface of a lake, I couldn't move, couldn't breathe. "Your eyes . . .

Kat Falls

#19. With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.

Adam Beach

#20. Sitting in an armchair under yellow lamplight in front of a black window in an apartment whose only other light was the milky rainbow of the Wurlitzer, Richard was like a giant, welcoming ear. Or a reflecting device, beaming her best self back at her.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#21. Human is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.

N. T. Wright

#22. Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.

Neel Mukherjee

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#28. Sometimes...I lose myself in looking back upon the ocean which I have passed, and now and then find myself surprised by a tear in reflecting upon the friends I have lost, and the scenes of distress that I have witnessed, and which I was unable to relieve.

- Dr. Benjamin Rush

Jim Murphy

#29. Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.

Ken Goldberg

#30. Something is reflecting our thoughts back to us in obvious and not so obvious ways.

Bryant McGill

#31. I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.

Jodie Foster