Reflective Quotes
119 quotes by 111 authors
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
— David Bowie
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I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.
— Kobe Bryant
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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's…
— Philip Yancey
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If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.
— Albert Bandura
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Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.
— John C. Maxwell
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The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government…
— H. L. Mencken
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Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded…
— Lachlan Murdoch
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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more…
— Andrew Greeley
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In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power to resist falsehood…
— Parker J. Palmer
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...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination, but also to…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.
— Washington Irving
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You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're…
— Barack Obama
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But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is…
— Clarence Thomas
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We are met today in a general conference. Sometimes, I hear, the people feel, some of them, that perhaps we are not quite as "peppy"…
— J. Reuben Clark
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There are many images and realities of what women are, become, can be - strong, vulnerable, dogged, determined, frail, brave, courageous. The faces of women…
— Jocelynne Scutt
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Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of the other sex, it is…
— Steven Pinker
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A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.
— John Goodlad
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As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of…
— Arthur Nersesian
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