Best 229 quotes in «obvious quotes» category

Sometimes the most difficult thing is to be able to see the most obvious thing!

Sometimes when I go to bed, I lay there for hours and hours trying to fall asleep and I get so frustrated! But then I realize my eyes were open the whole time...

The idea that other perspectives exist may not be obvious to those who are in an emotional state of mind.

Then this," Grimm said, "is what I believe professional inquisitors refer to as a clue." "In my considered judgment as an occasional inquisitor for the Spirearch," Benedict said, "I believe you may be correct.

The most obvious question of every citizen who is responsible to his nation's transformation is, "What can I do in this situation?

There are always options available that are not obvious.

There will always be much more behind what happens than is initially obvious.

The very way that you think is a crucial component to your overall health and well being. Living towards the negative will only foster conflict and a sense of lack, while living towards the positive will create more opportunity for you to experience harmony and abundance.

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...

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

The obvious is only obvious when it happens to someone else.

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.

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

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

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

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our species deserves the credit. I am a devout atheist - nothing else makes any sense to me and I must admit to being bewildered by those, who in the face of what appears so obvious, still believe in a mystical creator. However I can see that the promise of infinite immortality is a more palatable proposition than the absolute certainty of finite mortality which those of us who are subject to free thought (as opposed to free will) have to look forward to and many may not have the strength of character to accept it. Thus I am a supporter of Amnesty International, a humanist and an atheist. I believe in a secular, democratic society in which women and men have total equality, and individuals can pursue their lives as they wish, free of constraints - religious or otherwise. I feel that the difficult ethical and social problems which invariably arise must be solved, as best they can, by discussion and am opposed to the crude simplistic application of dogmatic rules invented in past millennia and ascribed to a plethora of mystical creators - or the latest invention; a single creator masquerading under a plethora of pseudonyms. Organisations which seek political influence by co-ordinated effort disturb me and thus I believe religious and related pressure groups which operate in this way are acting antidemocratically and should play no part in politics. I also have problems with those who preach racist and related ideologies which seem almost indistinguishable from nationalism, patriotism and religious conviction.

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

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.

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

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

Yes is too obvious,may be always incubates curiosity

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.

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.

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.

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

Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.

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.

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

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

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

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

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

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

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.

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

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

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

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.

Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.