Reflective Quotes

119 quotes by 111 authors

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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
Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place. — David Bowie
I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose. — Kobe Bryant
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
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. — Albert Bandura
Reflective thinking turns experience into insight. — John C. Maxwell
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
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
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
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
...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
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven. — Washington Irving
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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