Best 229 quotes in «obvious quotes» category

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

I try to make that tension almost stupidly overt in my projects, almost ridiculously so. I keep coming back to the same obvious points again and again.

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses -- the precise place where you would expect to see the least.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.

It's obvious what's timeless and what is not timeless, but you need time to find that answer.

It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.

It's weird doing a show on a Saturday, because we get the news after everybody had their way with it. We still have to find a way to get something fresh out of the story, but also keep the integrity of it. A lot of times the obvious take is so obvious it's already been on Twitter, so we gotta find a new thing.

It's useful to be born in a different culture because you see things that are not obvious. I come from France. In France, there isn't a pretense of objectivity in publishing. I discovered - and I don't agree with it - that in the US, the New York Times or The New Yorker has to pretend to be objective, and if they present this point of view then they have to also present the other side.

It was obvious to me that we could never colonize Mars without reusability, any more than America would have been colonized if they had to burn the ships after every trip.

It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.

I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.

Kindly remember that the obvious is always overlooked.

I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics.

I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

Let me reminding you what Ted Cruz has told me I don't know how many times. The thing that shocked him more than anything his first few days in the Senate was how 90% of what senators do is get reelected. Ninety percent of their time is spent raising money, organizing fundraisers, dealing with the consultants and all who raise the money, planning the events. The other 10%'s being a senator. It shocked him. It was that blatant, that obvious.

Make subtlety obvious.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.

Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard!

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic.

No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways.

Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.

One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.

One of the things I like about doing science, the thing that is the most fun, is coming up with something that seems ridiculous when you first hear it but finally seems obvious when you're finished.

One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't be able to smile so much.

One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Only the prophets see the obvious.

Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious.

Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.