Best 229 quotes in «obvious quotes» category

This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing. All in vain. All wasted. The older the world becomes, the more obvious it is. The bomb and the tortures in Algeria and the starving babies in the Congo. It gets bigger and darker. More and more suffering for more and more. And more and more in vain.

To avoid surprises later, spend enough time to know people initially. Don't just ask the obvious. Go the extra mile... Be creative and unconventional...

Well, of course there is such a thing as good taste! Some things actually are better than other things, and some people are capable of making the distinction. But... Bad taste will always ultimately triumph over good taste, because bad taste has more financial backing. There is far more profit to be made from selling cheap and nasty products, at a big mark-up, than selling quality items at a small mark-up. And you can always produce far more cheap and nasty items far more quickly than you can produce quality items. Far more.

Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.

Wisdom is all about the simple, often tiny, obvious things, done consistently, one at a time.

What would Jesus do? One thins is obvious, if there is one thing Jesus would NOT do - is to behave like his followers.

When you are always ready for the worst, then the worst is likely to show up

What would Jesus do? One thing is obvious, if there is one thing Jesus would NOT do - is to behave like his followers.

Yes is too obvious,may be always incubates curiosity

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

You know what you are, young 'un? You're the grand bloody panjandrum of the painfully bleeding obvious.

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you.

You can think of your body in two ways: 1. As mechanical, like an automobile worth only so many miles or 2. As a living breathing energetic vessel manifested from spirit. Either way will greatly effect the length and quality of your life. Choose wisely.

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.

Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.

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.

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth.

Commercial record has never interested me. It's amazing I was in a band like The Police that had such phenomenal commercial success. Part of what made The Police what it was was that we didn't all come in with obvious mainstream musical tastes. We were a rock band and somehow we had to make rock music, but it was informed by a lot of things outside of the mainstream for sure.

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

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

Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected

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.

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.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

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

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

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

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.

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.

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

Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.

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

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

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

I am at war with the obvious.

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

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.