Best 229 quotes in «obvious quotes» category

Kindly remember that the obvious is always overlooked.

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.

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

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

Make subtlety obvious.

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.

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!

Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

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

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

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

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.

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

Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.

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

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.

Only the prophets see the obvious.

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

Putin has an obvious problem. His country's economy is in stagnation. He needs to constantly be pointing a figure at who is at fault. America is at fault. He needs to show those fronts - those directions in which he is defeating America. In Syria, for example, in Syria, he is defeating America; not ISIS, he's defeating America.

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.

Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.

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.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

Some of the best opportunities in the world are the most obvious ones.

Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear so obvious.

Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.

Success is a refined study of the obvious

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

Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life.

Teamwork is not always going to be split equally, and being able to work on a team without competing with your peers is an important skill to have. If you're that good, the other things you do independently will be seen, and over time it will be obvious that you're a winner.

The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

Thank you, Captain Obvious." "I'm on the Senate," he reminded me. "It's Lord Obvious.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.