Best 229 quotes in «obvious quotes» category

Determine where you are going and how you will get there will become obvious.

Deutsche Telekom was a brand that people still loved, the nerds loved it, and it was still there, it was still visible. The advertiser was OK. But it was a mess. It was in my mind, though, intuitively obvious what to do. I had some advisers and friends, and we looked at it and said all you have to do is get the iPhone, buy some spectrum, consolidate the industry, reinvigorate the brand, and take this company public.

Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected

[Donald] Trump has many and one of the most obvious is right here in Washington.

Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe its because I talk too much!

Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

Haruhi: Whaddaya think I am?! The Twins: To us? Why that's obvious-- a toy!

Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.

Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.

I don't know if it is obvious, but I am extremely shy.

I am at war with the obvious.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.

I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.

Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.

I do like being surprised by directors and producers and being offered parts I would never have considered, including parts that aren't necessarily obvious but which would test me.

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.

I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.

I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there is an obvious tragedy being talked about.

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.

I grew up in a middle to upper-class house with fairly liberal sentiments, but to me it was always very obvious that the society I grew up in was not ideal and needed to change. Since I was a kid it was apparent it was going to change. It wasn't sustainable the way it was going on.

I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.

I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.

Isn’t it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn’t. I did it so I’d have a reason to be around you — one I knew you couldn’t refuse.

I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.

Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations?

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.