Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don’t just flash by but deserve some reflection.
Comics are just mirrors. People can either laugh at the reflection or be disgusted by it.
Money can be a reflection of our perceptions of power, self-esteem, personal history, fears, and happiness.
The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.
A budget is a reflection of our values, and as a member of the House Budget Committee, I work each year to ensure that our federal budget invests in programs that support working families, enhance our research and development capabilities, and ensure the safety and security of the American people.
If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world. What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world.
To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.
Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.
There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a reflection as opposed to an interpretation.
Holidays are reflection time and I always take ‘Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting’, by Lynn Grabhorn.
Nobody of us has ever seen ourselves! We see a reflection in the mirror.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
I might rap about a lot of stuff, but that’s just a reflection about what I’ve been through. But in real life, everything I do is positive.
I think there’s a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.
Anything can be taken out of context and anything you say or do is not necessarily an accurate reflection of who you are in your totality. There are small moments of your life that when taken into account with the rest of your life start to paint a picture.
I’m not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It’s nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
It’s hard not to question whether the harsh verdict of Winnie Mandela is a reflection of discomfort with women warriors or, more broadly, with the militant ethos that ultimately became a foil for the popularized representation of Nelson Mandela as the open-armed father of a non-racial nation.
Over the last 50 years or so, we have seen an increasing cultural diversification across the country. Accents are a reflection of society, and as society changes, so accents change.
Like all food, whether you’re talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it’s always a reflection of wars, trading, a bunch of good and a bunch of bad. But what’s left is always the food story.
I think people in the U.K. should be concerned about the under-representation of BAME actors in TV and Film, because it is an incorrect reflection of our society.
Thanksgiving, for me, is a time for reflection.
Your home is a kind of a reflection of your family, your life, where you’re at, where you want to be, so I love to entertain people in it.
So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it’s a positive one.
The entertainment industry is a microcosm of the real world. To be ‘othered’ within the industry is a reflection of where we have been cast in the outside world, existing in the margins of society for decades witnessing cisgendered, heterosexual whiteness as the clearly defined default to which we must cater.
When we were shooting ‘The Book Thief,’ I was keeping all these journals. And I remember talking to my mom, really trying to verbalize all the experiences I was having. And I remember my mom saying, ‘Ben, reflection is a retroactive process.’ When you’re going through it, that’s the time to just let it wash over you.
It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.
Unfortunately, relationships always end for a reason. When it happens it is a time for reflection of course, because one has to always learn from those circumstances.
I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.
Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that India is such a receiving country and is always open to all kinds of music. Our composers, singers and writers are open to experimenting.
I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
A moment’s reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.
And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.
Come on, we would be foolish to say that there’s never been African-American leads in some capacity, people of color in some capacity, leading shows or what have you. But it hasn’t happened enough and in a manner that is an accurate reflection of the world that we live in.
These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn’t even know existed.
I’ve come to understand that art is awesome and beautiful because it’s a reflection of life – but it’s just a reflection, and the real thing is my daughter.
One of the questions that has most bothered me in my reflections on culture is the question of kitsch. Just what is it? When did it begin? And why?
Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which ‘From the Ruins of Empire’ was.
A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.
The only reason I’ve been so critical of hip-hop is because I’ve always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Your self-esteem won’t come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.
Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
As cinema is a reflection of the world around us, with more women coming into the mainstream business, more women narratives will grab the limelight.
The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.
It’s important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they’ll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.
I believe an artiste is a reflection of society. I write what I see. I am not a scholar, I am just an entertainer. I cannot change the way people think.
I’ve used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc.
There’s something so arrogant about us creating robots that are more and more human-looking or acting. It’s like we’re playing God. Let’s create something that’s a reflection of us, but it’s inferior.
