Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first. — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Sometimes the most obvious things in life, are the hardest things to talk about. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. —Sherlock Holmes,” — Amy Webb Copy Share Image
The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision. — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under… — Luigi Ghirri Copy Share Image
People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone… — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
I had a life experience that most of my - that none of my friends had. I remember I became everybody's rabbi.… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
“Two things should have become readily apparent to you by now: First, I'm not the brightest bulb in the pack when it… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the… — George Polya Copy Share Image
It's the obvious thing to say but artists want to be able to tell all kinds of stories and tear down every… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I find that the interesting challenges, because there's obvious things where, you know, don't be unethical, don't be evil, you know, don't… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Are you prepared to have quite obvious things explained to you, to ask futile questions, to give me chances of scoring off… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] also says that nothing is true which forces exclusion. From that, you're obliged to accept contradictions if you don't want… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
It's more like there are some really obvious things that are different and then lots and lots of smaller things, lots of… — Casey Hudson Copy Share Image
Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens.… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
When you go to that other country you realize that in France and in England, you don't ask somebody what they do… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
If there's a big problem and you've got the right people with you, usually the answer emerges and you do what's the… — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
Paris is a beautiful city to walk around in. And, you know, all the obvious things: I like the museums, I like… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well. — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
“This is pretty obvious, but until things happen, they haven't happened. And often things aren't what they seem.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Be nice to each other. Not a lot, but seems like the most obvious thing. — Lenny Jacobson Copy Share Image
Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize — David Archuleta Copy Share Image
“Those things that are the most obvious are the very things we're most likely to overlook.” — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image