Best 229 quotes in «obvious quotes» category

Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.

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.

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

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

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

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

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.