Superficial Quotes

357 quotes by 306 authors

Superficial goals lead to superficial results — Attila the Hun
It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of convenience, materialism, insecurity,… — Marlo Morgan
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at… — Ludwig von Mises
I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things… — Luis Bunuel
Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on… — Thomas Carlyle
There is a difference. You watch television, you don't witness it. But, while watching television, if you start witnessing yourself watching television, then there are… — Rajneesh
That which you or I think is most unique about ourselves we hide. In ordinary discourse, in the normal state, we share our common self,… — Robert E. Quinn
It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or… — Agostino Scilla
You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity. — Sofia Coppola
The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have run all the… — Robert de Castella
[People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. ... Nothing is simpler than to complete… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The character is everything that I felt strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things and I realized that I… — Emma Watson
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and… — George Bernard Shaw
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new… — Henrik Ibsen
I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that hides beneath those… — Corey Taylor
The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. — Norman Cousins
The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from… — Henry James
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail… — Ansel Adams
The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause,… — Edward Weston
I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject;… — Ansel Adams

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