Top 100 Time To Reflect Quotes

#1. When I have time to sit and reflect on the different situations that I face every day, I'll be able to speak more succinctly about the challenges as a woman.

Mindy Kaling

#2. One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.

Sheryl Crow

#3. Reflect and meditate on yourself and discover ways to multiply yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#4. If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

Daniel Kahneman

#5. Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.

Jack Baker

#6. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

Anselm Kiefer

#7. A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!

Guy De Maupassant

#8. Why are people so afraid of thinking? Why don't they ever leave time to reflect? There's nothing wrong with tranquility; nor emptiness, vertigo, or even unhappiness. I think that these things are the first steps to precede the birth of a new thought. This is why I like to read.

Almudena Solana

#9. All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.

Maria Konnikova

#10. Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.

Joanie Connell

#11. Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.

Fred Rogers

#12. It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.

Isabel Allende

#13. Time passes, people move. Like a river's flow, it never ends. A childish mind will turn to noble ambition. Young love will become deep affection. The clear water's surface reflects growth. Now listen to the Serenade of water to reflect upon yourself.

Sheik

#14. The middle of the week is a great time to reflect on what was done and still needs to be done before the end of the week.

David Dweck

#15. There are many different techniques and forms of meditation. The common element among these techniques is that the person takes time out from the daily pace of life to close their eyes and reflect on thoughts or images that create internal feelings of peace and relaxation.

Tim McCarthy

#16. For me the end of the year is always a time to reflect and recharge my energies.

Gisele Bundchen

#17. Important moments like this are time to reflect. To remind us, sometimes, that it's not only important what you wear, but it's also important to be aware.

Kenneth Cole

#18. The bohemian life that reigned in Paris until the end of the '50s is gone. The artists had more time to think, to reflect; success didn't come so suddenly.

Pontus Hulten

#19. The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?

Dan Pearce

#20. What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.

Margaret Mead

#21. But a soldier ought not to dwell too long on such matters. His life is full of hardship and he must take his pleasure where he can. Though he may take time to reflect upon the cruelties that he sees, place him among his comrades and it is almost impossible for his spirits not to rise. Strange

Susanna Clarke

#22. If I had more recreation time I would be able to step back and reflect on how life has changed. But it has been like a constant ... boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

Shia Labeouf

#23. Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.

Akiane Kramarik

#24. As a leader, it's critical to take the time to reflect in order to create a powerful vision for the company.

Bonnie Marcus

#25. For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade, as toward a catastrophe: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. How many solutions are found to family problems if we take time to reflect? If we think of a husband or wife and we dream about their good qualities that they have? Don't ever lose the illusion of when you were boyfriend and girlfriend!

Pope Francis

#27. Top-half students may use the Groom Room. Bottom-half students should use the time to reflect upon their mediocrity!

Soman Chainani

#28. Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use is it to lean upon that which cannot give support?

Gerard Majella

#29. It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#30. I've always considered myself to be similar. I'm no recluse, but, like an introvert, I need a lot of time alone to reflect and recharge, and I am easily drained by being around others, but at the same time, like an extrovert, I'm energized by parties and conversation.

Kate Bolick

#31. Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap.

Jennifer Lawrence

#32. What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

#33. When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.

Christopher Reeve

#34. Having family time to reflect on your day is the best.

Buddy Valastro

#35. The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.

James Howard Kunstler

#36. As I get older, I increasingly value free time that's completely free of appointments. Time to think, time to reflect, time to just hang out with my wife and kids.

Joe Mansueto

#37. To achieve a more balanced international system over time, countries with excessive and unsustainable trade surpluses will need to allow their exchange rates to better reflect market fundamentals.

Ben Bernanke

#38. Leveraging your personal strengths means you will also need to become clearer about those strengths. It is easier to build on what you are already good at than start from your weaker areas. Take time to list down your strengths and reflect on them.

Archibald Marwizi

#39. As prime minister, I worked closely with Ronald Reagan for eight of the most important years of all our lives. We talked regularly both before and after his presidency. And I have had time and cause to reflect on what made him a great president.

Margaret Thatcher

#40. Blessed are those who can find light in dark places, courageous enough to feel when it's time to reflect & hopeful enough to believe when all seems impossible. We don't have enough pioneers like this, and I wonder if it's because they were afraid to live and afraid to learn?

Nikki Rowe

#41. With sports, you have no time to reflect. You just do.

Terri Giuliano Long

#42. Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.

Marian Keyes

#43. I believe that peace is one of the key reasons we need to take time to reflect. We make far better decisions when we are in a peaceful state.

Laura Lane

#44. We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.

James Blake

#45. Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect.

Tom Hodgkinson

#46. I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy.

Miranda Kerr

#47. National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. Stop, think and use your brain! Don't' rush through life. Take time to reflect as you define what success means to you. Always remember you are one of a kind!

Archibald Marwizi

#49. In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make.

Larry Ellison

#50. Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

William Hazlitt

#51. I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

David Blaine

#52. To see a Woman you love in Distress; to be unable to relieve her, and at the same Time to reflect that you have brought her into this Situation, is, perhaps, a Curse of which no Imagination can represent the Horrors to those who have not felt it.

Henry Fielding

#53. Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#54. If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the Danish dancer Eric Bruhn were, I feel, without peer.

Jacques D'Amboise

#55. If you [Donald Trump] do visit this country [UK], take time to visit the Mosques. Take time to reflect on how dangerous that kind of rhetoric is.

Sarah Wollaston

#56. We should have a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the military, of their sacrifices, of their failures.

Richard Engel

#57. You must reflect that fettered prisoners only at first feel the weight of the shackles on their legs: in time, when they have decided not to struggle against but to bear them, they learn from necessity to endure with fortitude, and from habit to endure with ease.

Seneca.

#58. We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, energy or funds to support the production of mass media images that do not reflect life-enhancing values, that undermine a love ethic.

Bell Hooks

#59. Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

Ariel Garten

#60. I sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all that. There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.

Adrian Tomine

#61. Valuation premiums of quality companies often reflect some degree of expected operational outperformance, but actual performance tends to exceed expectations over time. Stock prices thus tend to undervalue quality companies.

Lawrence A. Cunningham

#62. When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don't have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.

Alex Trebek

#63. I sincerely believe that there is a time in life for drifting. There is a time for sitting back and getting in touch with yourself. Some of our most interesting illuminations and ideas will come when we take time to reflect, time to kick back and cruise awhile.

Rudolfo Anaya

#64. If you want your life to be a reflection of Christ, you need to take time to reflect on Christ.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#65. These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country.

Marcy Kaptur

#66. By all means judge and react, but at some point afterwards be sure to reflect and switch sides. The next time you might be less quick to react.

Nina Joshi Ramsey

#67. Take time each day to pulse and reflect on the beauty of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#68. Every time a couple moves they begin, if their attention is still drawn to one another, to see each other differently, for personalities are not a single immutable color, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.

Mohsin Hamid

#69. Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.

Kurt Busch

#70. By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork.

Eric Drooker

#71. Prudent men are wont to say
and this not rashly or without good ground
that he who would foresee what has to be should reflect on what has been, for everything that happens in the world at any time has genuine resemblance to what happened in ancient times.
Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli

#72. My mind mellows now, and I sit back, glad to be done with a busy day. Evening's tranquility presents a chance to settle in with myself and with You. It is the time of day that I most often reflect on who I am and what my life means.

Hope Lyda

#73. Whatever phase of life you are in, make time to pause and reflect where you are heading to. It is a good time to insert a comma now and realign yourself to your inner self before your life ends in a full stop.

Roopleen

#74. If you feel well and happy, your face will reflect this, but if you are down in the dumps and having a miserable time, your face will soon show this, too. In fact, you get the face you deserve by the time you're forty, and one of the keys to looking and feeling younger is being active.

Joan Collins

#75. I hate feeling late. Someone else has the courtesy and respect to show up on time, and when I'm late, it's like telling them, "I don't respect you." Worst feeling in the world. It makes you really reflect on your priorities.

Matthew Moy

#76. But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.

Robert Walpole

#77. Do an evening review at the end of the day to reflect on what went well, and what you'd do differently next time.

Marilyn Suttle

#78. He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.

Claire Tomalin

#79. I'm pretty much a movie-to-movie guy. It's hard for me to multitask so I feel very one-thing-at-a-time oriented and I usually just wait until a movie's done and it's premiered, then just kind of reflect on what I'm interested in my own life and let the movies come to me rather than force them.

Drake Doremus

#80. Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

H. P. Blavatsky

#81. Choices, not Chances, are responsible for the quality of our Life. Spend time to Think, Reflect, Introspect & then Choose.-RVM

R.v.m.

#82. The idea of 'ferie,' or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It's a time to relax, reflect and recharge.

Frida Giannini

#83. A blog is something that, everyday there's a new thing and that's part of the fun of it, you're just constantly moving forward. A book really gives you more time to reflect and think hard on things very, very deep.

Gretchen Rubin

#84. The best time to reflect is when you like the person looking back.

Pleasefindthis

#85. When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

Jerry Saltz

#86. Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very well.

Michael Foale

#87. I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect.

Delta Goodrem

#88. Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.

Irwin Winkler

#89. I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.

G. Willow Wilson

#90. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

Mark Twain

#91. It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.

Todd Rundgren

#92. It's a time to stop, honor and reflect on the abundance, prosperity, people and lives we are blessed with.

Sandra Magsamen

#93. The cool thing about getting older, is that you have so much to look back on. If you take the time to reflect on your life journey to where you are now, you will be amazed at how many times "fate" caused you to make great decisions that lead you to where you are now.

Beth Ramsay

#94. As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own, ways to reflect on things that have happened to us and a chance to engage with the world in ways that transcend time and gender and all sorts of things.

Kim Edwards

#95. Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

Steve Jobs

#96. Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

#97. Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

Scott Ian

#98. Front end loading with appropriate resources provided time to reflect and produce needed changes and alignment around the C&Q approach.

Robert A. Young

#99. D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than bears and tigers.

Alexandre Dumas

#100. Never stop asking questions. Always take time to reflect and find answers. Stop, Think and Use Your Brain!

Archibald Marwizi

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