Obvious Quotes

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I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness. — Richard Branson
Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times. — Jeff Bezos
But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action… — Steven Brust
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… — Arthur Koestler
Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who… — David Tudor
The Dreyfus Affair is an exceptional case. It's true that here and there you can find some dregs of anti-Semitism, but the situation is the… — Jean-Marie Le Pen
My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that… — Norman Finkelstein
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. — Robert Genn
I am at war with the obvious. — William Eggleston
I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth. — Jock Sturges
A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party. — Bill Hicks
It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient… — Jack Vance
Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc. Don't say, don't… — Georges Perec
Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious… — Megyn Kelly
And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco… — Juan Goytisolo
Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock? — Abbie Hoffman
If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point… — Gangaji
Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance… — David F. Houston

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