Reflection Quotes

‘By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.’ – Confucius

‘I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.’ – Shawn Ashmore

‘The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.’ – Thomas Paine

‘The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.’ – Thomas Merton

‘A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.’ – Margaret J. Wheatley

‘Being black is not a matter of pigmentation – being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.’ – Steven Biko

‘Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.’ – John Locke

‘Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.’ – Peter Drucker

‘Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.’ – Cesar Chavez

‘It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Transitions are a time for reflection, and a time for looking forward.’ – Roy Cooper

‘A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end – and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.’ – Maynard James Keenan

‘I’m a reflection of the community.’ – Tupac Shakur

‘Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.’ – John Quincy Adams

‘Cinema is a reflection of society and, in most cases, has the ability to be a mirror and not just show the problems but also give solutions and help them reach a large number of people through faces and voices that matter.’ – Kirti Kulhari

‘Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.’ – Meg Rosoff

‘Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.’ – Jeffrey Gitomer

‘Surround yourself with really good people. I think that’s an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.’ – Aaron Rodgers

‘We’re fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.’ – Ken Goldberg

‘To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.’ – Henri Poincare

‘There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.’ – Denis Diderot

‘I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.’ – Lauren Oliver

‘Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers ‘everyone’ an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage without reflection.’ – Roxane Gay

‘Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.’ – Anatole France

‘My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.’ – John Lennon

‘Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘Cinema is a reflection of its own society.’ – Shohreh Aghdashloo

‘The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.’ – William Makepeace Thackeray

‘The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy – they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator.’ – Rick Perry

‘In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.’ – Cal Thomas

‘We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.’ – Tara Stiles

‘With all of the bad things that are happening in the world right now, I think we need a message of togetherness and true unity. I believe that starts with personal reflection and then we can find kindness toward each other.’ – Marielle Heller

‘Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.’ – John Podhoretz

‘I learned a few years ago that balance is the key to a happy and successful life, and a huge part of achieving that balance is to instill rituals into your everyday life – a nutritious balanced diet, daily exercise, time for yourself through meditation, reading, journaling, yoga, daily reflection, and setting goals.’ – Gretchen Bleiler

‘For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.’ – Peace Pilgrim

‘Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.’ – Alan King

‘Life is unpredictable, and I feel, to some extent, lighting and cinematography should be a reflection of that.’ – Rachel Morrison

‘The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.’ – Gabrielle Bernstein

‘Whenever I see a mirror, I just look at myself, or when I see my own reflection, I quickly take a look; I won’t lie about that. But when I am in front of the camera, it’s just the character, not me.’ – Alia Bhatt

‘Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.’ – Herbert A. Simon

‘As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.’ – Meat Loaf

‘I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.’ – Dolly Parton

‘One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.’ – Loren Eiseley

‘The dog is a reflection of your energy, of your behavior. You have to ask, ‘What am I doing?’ That’s the right question to ask.’ – Cesar Millan

‘The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.’ – Karrine Steffans

‘Asian literature is evolving with the people. It’s always a reflection on what’s happening to the culture at large.’ – Kevin Kwan

‘Music is critical in our lives and culture. It’s the inspiration that drives us. It’s also the window to our souls. It’s a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we’re going.’ – Bill Walton

‘Change comes from reflection.’ – Genesis P-Orridge

‘Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.’ – John Berger

‘As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.’ – Charles Horton Cooley

‘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.’ – Jarvis Cocker

‘A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.’ – Frederick Douglass

‘I look at my body as an extension of the music. My body is a canvas, and with my tattoos, I want them to be a direct reflection of my thoughts.’ – Lil Skies

‘When I’m writing, I’m constantly thinking about myself, because it’s the only experience I have to draw on. And I don’t see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that’s why the fans are there.’ – Chester Bennington

‘Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.’ – Lenny Kravitz

‘Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.’ – Sophocles

‘A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.’ – William Kingdon Clifford

‘Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We’re online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.’ – James Comey

‘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.’ – William Whewell

‘Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.’ – Giambattista Vico

‘Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.’ – Desiderius Erasmus

‘It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.’ – Thomas Paine

‘There is an idea of, you know, informing people about some emerging things. And part of that is just a reflection of my own interest, following different areas and saying, you know, look what they’re doing now.’ – Michael Crichton

‘Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.’ – William Inge

‘I’m trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.’ – Antony Gormley

‘Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.’ – Marshall McLuhan

‘A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.’ – Edward Young

‘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.’ – Kehinde Wiley

‘Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.’ – Albert Einstein

‘A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.’ – Daniel Day-Lewis

‘The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘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.’ – Learned Hand

‘Good looks are not something you earn. But as you get older, how you look is a reflection of the life you’ve led.’ – Diana Quick

‘Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.’ – Robert Battle

‘I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.’ – Seal

‘Fashion is a reflection of the time.’ – Anna Wintour

‘Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.’ – Alban Berg

‘We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.’ – David Icke

‘As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don’t see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘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.’ – Stacy London

‘The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one’s inner power.’ – Xun Kuang

‘I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.’ – William Congreve

‘What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.’ – Lady Gaga

‘I don’t think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don’t know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.’ – Naomi Judd

‘My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.’ – Ryszard Kapuscinski

‘I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.’ – Steven Wright

‘Dates that come around every year help us measure progress in our lives. One annual event, New Year’s Day, is a time of reflection and resolution.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.’ – Lactantius

‘My films are a personal reflection on the impact that the state – the system and the world – has on me.’ – Vetrimaaran

‘Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.’ – Dianne Reeves

‘Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.’ – Pope Benedict XVI

‘It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.’ – Edward Sapir

‘Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.’ – Alan Cohen

‘There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.’ – Confucius

‘I have a fundamentally hopeful view about people, and that might merely be a reflection of the fact that I’ve lived an incredibly privileged life in a very wealthy nation without a lot of the struggles that most of the world has to face.’ – Greta Gerwig

‘Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.’ – Victor Davis Hanson

‘Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that, though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear.’ – Anne Bronte

‘The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun dapple our bedroom ceiling.’ – Craig Brown

‘Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.’ – Edward Weston

‘The reflection of the world is blues, that’s where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that’s tryin’ to come around.’ – Jimi Hendrix

‘What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?’ – James Madison

‘Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.’ – Wilhelm Wundt

‘What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If I’m in a good mood, it’s got to be cashmere and jeans – just something comfy, soft and warm. When I’m down, I might find something that I haven’t worn for a while that was bought for me – or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends.’ – Kim Cattrall

‘Running is a great metaphor for life. You set a goal, and then you get to work. How well you do is a direct reflection of how hard you work. It’s a mental game, too. There are setbacks along the way, but the true test of a runner is how you overcome and push past them.’ – Ivanka Trump

‘String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe – from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies – are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.’ – Brian Greene

‘I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?’ – James Thomson

‘I want to create a collection, almost like a trilogy of sorts. Whereas ‘Milk and Honey’ was very much like holding a mirror up to yourself, the second book is turning that mirror around and fixing it on the world. The book is a reflection of the times we are in.’ – Rupi Kaur

‘Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.’ – John Locke

‘It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.’ – Alfred Loisy

‘I am concerned about the erraticness of the dollar. The dollar is up, the dollar is down. We print a lot of dollars. The dollar gets devalued. That is really the concern. If people think the gold price up and down is a reflection of something wrong with gold, no – I say it is something wrong with the dollar.’ – Ron Paul

‘Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.’ – Nelson Piquet

‘When I began to write my books about Coalwood, I was surprised to discover, upon reflection, that it wasn’t an ordinary place at all.’ – Homer Hickam

‘Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.’ – Margaret Heffernan

‘When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It’s a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music becomes a mirror.’ – Hiromi Uehara

‘When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that’s lost. It doesn’t exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.’ – Ansel Elgort

‘I love my mother to death. I’m pretty much a reflection of her.’ – Stone Cold Steve Austin

‘Sometimes we need pure relief. Sometimes we need pure escapism. Sometimes we need major reflection on some aspects of our collective unconscious.’ – Marielle Heller

‘Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.’ – David Hume

‘But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.’ – Samuel Alexander

‘Watching sunrise and sunset from space, which is a beautiful sight, has been a personal privilege I have attained while being there. Another reflection from within I felt was that there was nothing which was neither visible and nor with a supportive environment as to how Planet Earth is.’ – Rakesh Sharma

‘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.’ – Seth Moulton

‘I am a reflection of my mother.’ – Kartik Aaryan

‘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.’ – Sidney Poitier

‘I think, when you reach the top level, it is less about the money itself; it is important only because the level of earning shows the importance of the player or the manager. I don’t think people want to have the money just to spend it. It is a reflection of your importance in football.’ – Antonio Conte

‘It’s cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I’ve been going through in one way or another.’ – Chester Bennington

‘Boring people are a reflection of boring people.’ – Douglas Horton

‘Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.’ – Rupert Murdoch

‘I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.’ – Albert Einstein

‘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.’ – Margaret J. Wheatley

‘Bob Marley performed the ‘One Love Peace’ concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There’s always been that in black music and culture in general. It’s no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what’s going on in black life. It’s not unusual for hip-hop.’ – Mos Def

‘There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.’ – Thomas Paine

‘Coming of age as a young queer man of color, it was a rarity to see any reflections of myself portrayed in mainstream media. Turning on the television or going to the movies was an escape into the imagination, yet it did not allow me a place of true connection to what I was viewing on the screen in front of me.’ – Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

‘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.’ – Jose Jose

‘When we look up into the starry night sky, we tend to see reflections of ourselves.’ – Trevor Paglen

‘Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.’ – Eugenio Montale

‘I think college football is a reflection of Middle America. You go into a college football town, and you will find three generations of a family sitting together. It’s a rallying point for the university, the community, and the families.’ – Keith Jackson

‘Music is always a reflection of what’s going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.’ – Tori Amos

‘My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln’s convictions, his vision, and his toughness.’ – Gregory Peck

‘The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms… The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.’ – Frans de Waal

‘Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it’s a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘I think that Corbyn’s success, just as the success of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, is a reflection of this frustration that people have that whatever they do, in terms of voting for different parties, nothing much seems to change.’ – Steve Hilton

‘I think lighting is a reflection of what is at stake emotionally in a movie.’ – Rachel Morrison

‘My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior’s love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.’ – Thomas S. Monson

‘Food is a reflection of who you are as a person.’ – Adrienne C. Moore

‘Ever since I was a teenager, I always had a very strong sense of my own personal style. Kind of for better or for worse – actually I don’t think it’s ever been for worse. The way that I dress has always been a pretty accurate reflection of my personality and my life.’ – Busy Philipps

‘Our outward appearance is a reflection of what we are on the inside. Our lives reflect that for which we seek. And if with all our hearts we truly seek to know the Savior and to be more like Him, we shall be, for He is our divine, eternal Brother.’ – Margaret D. Nadauld

‘Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.’ – William Godwin

‘Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.’ – Denis Diderot

‘If I body-shame a woman, it is more a reflection of me being critical of my body, me not being able to keep up to certain standards I have, and so making sure that the women around me feel the same way.’ – Rupi Kaur

‘I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.’ – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

‘I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace.’ – Elsa Peretti

‘I think I had a kind of pause for insight in my 20s when I wasn’t in a relationship and my career wasn’t going the way I wanted it to go. I had time for reflection then.’ – Ray Liotta

‘You can’t take people’s opinions personally. Usually what people say about it is a reflection of them own issues.’ – Terrence J

‘I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.’ – Francois Truffaut

‘One of the best things about paintings is their silence – which prompts reflection and random reverie.’ – Mark Stevens

‘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.’ – David Crystal

‘A garden is a reflection of you, it’s your presence in the world.’ – Julie Newmar

‘Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious reflection. Kissinger was then a bachelor, enamored of the tall, elegant, but elusive WASP Nancy Maginnes, but still very much a bachelor – Washington’s most sought-after bachelor.’ – Alistair Horne

‘I think recovery is around the clock. Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I’m going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.’ – Carli Lloyd

‘Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.’ – Adolfo Perez Esquivel

‘I got a dog and am trying to elevate. I’m working out, eating healthier, reading books. Making ‘Make it Out Alive’ is going to be a reflection of all of that.’ – Brent Faiyaz

‘We should not become so ashamed of the disappointments and travesties of democracy that we become ashamed of the idea itself. It is the outer reflection of our self-acceptance.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.’ – Alexander Pope

‘In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.’ – Marcel Marceau

”Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.’ – William James

‘I don’t drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.’ – Nicolas Cage

‘My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I’m conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.’ – Shakira

‘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.’ – Marcus Samuelsson

‘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.’ – James Wolcott

‘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.’ – Jeremiah Brent

‘My physical transformations – like changing my hair – are usually a reflection of what’s inspiring me at the moment.’ – Madonna Ciccone

‘Once I’ve taken photographs, I look at them, and I get into them, and I’m there for the moment – and then that’s it. I find little time for reflection.’ – Pattie Boyd

‘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.’ – Sonu Nigam

‘As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.’ – Michael Pollan

‘On reflection, I think the 1980s were a dreadful, abysmal time.’ – Pete Burns

‘It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘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.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘They only babble who practise not reflection.’ – Edward Young

‘A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.’ – George Santayana

‘We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.’ – Jean Paul

‘Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.’ – John Ruskin

‘As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.’ – Ernest Renan

‘Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind’s disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.’ – Gerard De Nerval

‘If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks’ vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.’ – Dorothy Canfield Fisher

‘The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.’ – Charles W. Chesnutt

‘It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.’ – Earle Brown

‘A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it’s far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.’ – Wes Bentley

‘People might say I’m difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as ‘difficult’? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.’ – Michelle Shocked

‘Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.’ – Kenneth Burke

‘I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.’ – Crispin Glover

‘When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.’ – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

‘The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.’ – Omar Bongo

‘Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.’ – George Crumb

‘Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.’ – Theodor W. Adorno

‘What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I’m interested in how ordinary people live their lives.’ – Tracy Kidder

‘The only thing that’s a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it’s a new song, it’s a reflection of what you’re feeling or going through now.’ – Richard Marx

‘Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.’ – Huston Smith

‘I think it’s a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.’ – Kathy Valentine

‘We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn’t blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.’ – Leo Kottke

‘There’s a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song – it’s been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there’s a lot to talk about, and hopefully that’s evident in the music.’ – Nick Lachey

‘The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.’ – Jim Sensenbrenner

‘She’s a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she’s totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.’ – Lee Child

‘The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.’ – Terence Fisher

‘This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.’ – Brian Ferneyhough

‘A moment’s reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.’ – Francis Parker Yockey

‘But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.’ – Helena Blavatsky

‘I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.’ – Sidney Poitier

‘The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods.’ – John Foster

‘Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn’t thought of.’ – Rod Steiger

‘Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.’ – Ann Macbeth

‘Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!’ – Leigh Steinberg

‘For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.’ – Origen

‘I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don’t say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.’ – Bill McCartney

‘On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.’ – Bill Budge

‘What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.’ – Edmund Husserl

‘I’m absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I’m a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It’s a total reflection of the zeitgeist.’ – Siobhan Fahey

‘When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.’ – Gabriel Lippmann

‘I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.’ – John Woolman

‘The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.’ – Hjalmar Branting

‘Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.’ – Samuel E. Morison

‘I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.’ – Kenzaburo Oe

‘At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.’ – William Banting

‘I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems.’ – Angela Merkel

‘We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.’ – Leon Jouhaux

‘What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?’ – Max Muller

‘Would not the child’s heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?’ – Max Muller

‘Whatever my recorded output is, it’s a reflection of a general love of music.’ – Pat Metheny

‘To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.’ – Jerry Pournelle

‘I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.’ – Gene Tierney

‘The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.’ – Anne Tyler

‘In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.’ – Jacques Ellul

‘This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.’ – Eugen Herrigel

‘Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don’t know me, so who cares what they think?’ – Garry Shandling

‘Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don’t stand out too much, but they’re still total freaks. I like that – they’re smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us.’ – Gene Ween

‘To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.’ – Willie Stargell

‘I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.’ – Miriam Makeba

‘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.’ – Chris Van Hollen

‘The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.’ – Rudolf Arnheim

‘Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection… I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.’ – Lil’ Kim

‘My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system… I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.’ – Charles Manson

‘No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.’ – Edgar Degas

‘I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.’ – Alicia Keys

‘To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!’ – Frances Burney

‘Reflection makes men cowards.’ – William Hazlitt

‘The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.’ – George Santayana

‘Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God’s creatures should be treated humanely.’ – Joe Moore

‘Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.’ – John Updike

‘Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.’ – Mary Astell

‘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.’ – Ricky Martin

‘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.’ – Saul Williams

‘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.’ – Paula Radcliffe

‘I could have just received royalty checks every month by lending my name to a collection, but I didn’t want to do that. My name is a reflection of me.’ – Nicky Hilton

‘I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.’ – Rachel Stevens

‘The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection.’ – Eliot Spitzer

‘If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it’s much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.’ – Alexander Downer

‘I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can’t do damage to anybody unless you’re Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I’m sorry, but this is not a AAA nation.’ – Mark Steyn

‘If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister – who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll – and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.’ – Dennis Ross

‘To me, fashion is like a mirror. It’s a reflection of the times. And if it doesn’t reflect the times, it’s not fashion. Because people aren’t gonna be wearing it.’ – Anna Sui

‘The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasn’t me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldn’t do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.’ – Rick Baker

‘After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.’ – Rafael Correa

‘That’s why I like to get out there, and get people to see the other side of Mitt, and know us in a different reflection when you see the family and how funny he is with the boys and with the grandkids. And you know, just what a super guy he is. That’s part of what I am doing, is letting people see the other side of Mitt.’ – Ann Romney

‘The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.’ – Russell Simmons

‘The older you get, the more you realize that the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself.’ – Hope Davis

‘Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other’s point of view?’ – William Shatner

‘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.’ – Yoshihiko Noda

‘There’s so many young women today who look so lost. And I feel like, of course they’re lost. They have no one around them to give them real, authentic reflection.’ – Courtney Thorne-Smith

‘Everything family does is reflection on the other people.’ – Kim Kardashian

‘I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn’t exist, because I hated myself so much.’ – Margaret Cho

‘I make my films because I’m affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I’m dealing with. I think it’s a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.’ – Michael Haneke

‘Club culture is always going to be a reflection of youth culture, but I think we’re maybe moving into a time when the club is a place where older people can go, too. And it’s a place people go to connect to themselves, it’s not always about the party. It’s also about letting off steam and expressing yourself and connecting to other people.’ – Robyn

‘My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall – what’s going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.’ – Jonathan Safran Foer

‘What I love about ‘Breaking Bad’ is the reflection of many people’s – it’s more real in terms of people have faults, people have character traits that they don’t like about themselves. It resembles more of what the human journey really is and it’s less fantastic and hero-driven than other characters and shows that we watch.’ – Giancarlo Esposito

‘Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.’ – Rashida Jones

‘I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and is a reflection of who they are.’ – Roman Coppola

‘I don’t turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.’ – Susan Orlean

‘Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you’re an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.’ – Guillaume Canet

‘I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.’ – Aloe Blacc

‘We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and irrational.’ – Terry Eagleton

‘James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word ‘folksinger’ referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his own life, and performs in them in his own style. All of his performances are marked by an eloquent simplicity.’ – Jon Landau

‘Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human… the intrinsic, I guess.’ – Zola Jesus

‘My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.’ – Mario Balotelli

‘I think there’s a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.’ – Gene Robinson

‘I’m feeling more and more thoughts that aren’t songs, just reflections. I’m always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I’ve been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric.’ – Ana Tijoux

‘Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to – and sometimes down to – what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we’re required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.’ – Alan Lightman

‘Space is dark but, of course, when we’re on the sun side of the Earth, we’re in full illumination and we have all the reflection of the Earth below us, beautiful blue Earth and we’re in daylight. Only on the back side, opposite side of the sun, it seems like night to us, too.’ – Kevin A. Ford

‘The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that’s been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.’ – Bill Viola

‘When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.’ – Grace Jones

‘I am often drawn to what appear at first to be ‘dark’ or ‘difficult’ subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.’ – Marya Hornbacher

‘Sexual living is a reflection of God’s love for us. It has two key qualities, which is faithfulness and creativity of new life.’ – Vincent Nichols

‘My younger brother’s death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In ‘Fallen Angels’ I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.’ – Walter Dean Myers

‘In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.’ – Stephen LaBerge

‘I think I’d say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.’ – Zooey Deschanel

”Quantum Conundrum’ is a direct reflection, not just of me, but of our entire team. It has a little bit of all of our personalities in it.’ – Kim Swift

‘Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate – to think and not think at the same time.’ – Dhani Jones

‘I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for ‘Show Boat.’ The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what ‘Show Boat’ made possible.’ – Harold Prince

‘I don’t think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.’ – C. K. Williams

‘That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.’ – Emile Durkheim

‘The problem with writing a monthly book is that you’re going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn’t time for reflection or critical self-examination.’ – J. Michael Straczynski

‘You know, it’s funny how songs continue to grow and evolve and become a new and deeper reflection of your life.’ – Gloria Estefan

‘Although I’ve watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.’ – Jaime Winstone

‘Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur… that’s all me.’ – Tom DeLonge

‘My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that’s a reflection of another character.’ – Riz Ahmed

‘Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4 P.M., I look quite nice.’ – Jeremy Hardy

‘In a way, I’d rather go into an interview and be disliked, and have unpleasant things written about me, than to have a wonderful, glowing article written that is in no way a reflection of who I am.’ – Romola Garai

‘I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I’m walking past a glass building, but it’s in my mind about getting older and finding out what I’m going to look like as it unfolds – or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.’ – Dave Matthews

‘I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we’re visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what’s been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.’ – Barbara Kruger

‘Usually I love preparing. It’s really the time I prefer, because it’s a time of reflection and of possibility of growth – to let it cook inside.’ – Juliette Binoche

‘When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be.’ – Jon Katz

‘Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.’ – Mara Brock Akil

‘Even as a kid, I read ‘Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales’; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.’ – Pamela Anderson

‘When you’re writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn’t time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.’ – J. Michael Straczynski

‘Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it’s a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘I couldn’t be ‘Johnny’ in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like to be ‘Michael.’ With directing, you can’t do it by halves. There’s a lot of reflection, and I have found that I, as ‘Michael,’ thrive on it. It’s lovely coming home and feeling that stuff from a day’s work as myself.’ – Johnny Vegas

‘In the ’50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the ’70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.’ – Jim Lee

‘Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.’ – Carine Roitfeld

‘In a sense, I’m always hearing music of some sort, whether it’s people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I’m by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can’t do that when I’m listening to music. Because it’s someone else’s reflections, not mine.’ – Sarah McLachlan

‘One of the hardest things I’ve encountered whilst working on ‘Pippin’ is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life.’ – Matthew James Thomas

‘Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.’ – David Harsanyi

‘Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.’ – Billy Graham

‘The steep decline in America’s image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater’s killings of Iraqi civilians.’ – Shashi Tharoor

‘Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.’ – James Stephens

‘I read ‘The Crystal Cave’ book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.’ – Colin Morgan

‘Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection.’ – Stanley Hauerwas

‘We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.’ – Stanley Hauerwas

‘Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘Theological reflection takes place within history, but the history within which it takes place is an ongoing, open-ended process.’ – David Novak

‘The home is the center of your soul; it’s a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a dreary home, it means you are dark inside.’ – Alexandra Stoddard

‘Al Jazeera is the opinion of other opinion, independent. Al Jazeera is diverse, reflection of the collective mind of the nations and cultures and civilizations that we report from and we report to, bridge of dialogue. This is what Al Jazeera is all about. Al Jazeera is a mission.’ – Wadah Khanfar

‘When I first heard rap, I wasn’t quick to be critical. I couldn’t understand what they were saying, but I had a feeling it was a reflection of what’s been happening in the ghetto.’ – Casey Kasem

‘TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything.’ – Alan Arkin

‘I was worried for a while that it was some sort of reflection of me that all I seemed to be getting were these characters that were a tad bit loony. But I love it. Those are the most fun characters to play!’ – Torrey DeVitto

‘The budgets we work on in Congress are more than just fiscal documents; they are a reflection of our moral values as well. In choosing where to spend money, members of Congress choose what priorities they value.’ – Tim Walz

‘As of late, ‘Boyz n the Hood’ really impacted me because I grew up in that same neighborhood. It was the first time I saw a true reflection of me, my neighborhood and my surroundings.’ – Wendy Raquel Robinson

‘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.’ – Nicolas Roeg

‘When I was younger, I actually had a ghost face mask, and I stood in my sister’s room in the corner for, like, half an hour until she saw in the reflection, me behind her, and she freaked out and started slapping me.’ – Rory Culkin

‘My body is a reflection of how grateful I am for my life and my health; there are a lot of people less fortunate than me.’ – Rutina Wesley

‘The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don’t think you could make movies exclusively where there was no violence.’ – Christopher McQuarrie

‘If there’s any success that I’ve had, it is a direct reflection of the people I work with. We have a very smart team and an extremely hardworking team, both here in Washington and back in Illinois.’ – Cheri Bustos

‘Any consideration of the story we call ‘Cinderella’ for simplicity’s sake must acknowledge that ‘Cinderella’ has had a dizzying array of personae over hundreds of years, in several cultures. There is no one authoritative tale of ‘Cinderella,’ only a hall of mirrors with a different face in each reflection.’ – Marie Rutkoski

‘Puppies, like all babies, grow up fast. Before long, Gracie was no longer barking at her reflection, instead offering a blase look that seemed to say, ‘I know what that is now. I know it’s not another dog.” – Patti Davis

‘It’s interesting because we live in a country where the obesity is so enormous. And then the reflection on the runways is girls that are so thin. So there’s two extremes that are almost like a reflection of themselves, and it’s very hard to be in the middle with girls that are just healthy.’ – Nina Garcia

‘The public properly relies upon FDA classification of drugs as nonprescription as a reflection of the agency’s judgment regarding the safety and proper use of a drug without a doctor’s prescription.’ – Loretta Lynch

‘There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It’s all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean, Kennedy never let Johnson in the office.’ – Joe Biden

‘Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day and age.’ – Lykke Li

‘Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.’ – Al Jourgensen

‘Over the years, I think, people – actors, writers, whatever – lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based on somebody else who did this or did that. Performances. So it just becomes a reflection of what already works. Like a warm-up. And that’s an invitation to be inauthentic.’ – Michael Keaton

‘Is Amazon truly the best online buying experience? Absolutely not. Is eBay the best platform for auction? Probably not. Are dating sites like match.com really a reflection of the way people date? Probably not.’ – Danny Rimer

‘A person’s health isn’t generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.’ – Bruce Lipton

‘My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don’t like to be stuck in an R&B box.’ – Tinashe

‘With social media, you have this new kind of way to communicate with people that’s very immediate, sometimes alarmingly so, sometimes painfully so. If you could just hold some objectivity, a very direct, unfiltered, raw reflection of the way something is landing in the culture without any spin, or filtration, or anything, it’s very raw.’ – Mark Ruffalo

‘I’m interested in contemporary vision – the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!’ – James Rosenquist

‘Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?’ – Octavio Paz

‘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.’ – Pankaj Mishra

‘I’ve had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it’s someone else’s reflection they see.’ – Lee Daniels

‘Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.’ – Meir Soloveichik

‘For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers.’ – Jodie Evans

‘On reflection, I am always pleasantly surprised when ordinary members of the public stop me in the street to say, ‘Thank you,’ I guess for making travel and other goods and services affordable to them.’ – Stelios Haji-Ioannou

‘The U.S. must differentiate between controversial assertions of power, like those in the South China Sea, and fair reflections of China’s growing contribution to the world, such as the new banks.’ – Evan Osnos

‘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.’ – Jeff Lemire

”Up the Junction’ went on to inform my love of British social realism. It was the first film I saw of this ilk, a very stark, visceral reflection of England, an England I didn’t necessarily feel a part of but that I knew was out there. You could almost smell the bread and butter and cabbage.’ – Gurinder Chadha

‘For me, I had to overcome shyness to be an actor. But as a director, you lose your subjectivity, your self-consciousness. And instead of just your role, it’s the life of the whole play that becomes a reflection of you.’ – Gene Saks

‘I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It’s viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It’s highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.’ – Gary Hume

‘The three discrete invariances – reflection invariance, charge conjugation invariance, and time reversal invariance – are connected by an important theorem called the CPT theorem.’ – Chen-Ning Yang

‘As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal columns of humor and reflection, science articles, amateur fiction, stylish gossip, and inevitably, thoughtful pieces on the future of fandom.’ – Gregory Benford

‘I have caught my reflection and thought, ‘Oof. That girl is struggling. That girl is tired.’ I’ve had mornings where I’m like, ‘Oh God, I have weird hair.” – Melissa McCarthy

‘New Year’s Eve is not about having a big party for me. It’s a time of reflection, and I often go on spiritual retreats.’ – Monique Roffey

‘My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.’ – Oliver E. Williamson

‘A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you’d like to know.’ – Michael Dirda

‘Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water’s surface, less precise but more profoundly true.’ – Steve Erickson

‘Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn’t an easy road. I still don’t always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.’ – Katherine Schwarzenegger

‘When I speak of family, I immediately think of a support system who can give you a reality check when you need it: a mirror reflection of myself. I believe that we are a result of our family – the people who encourage us and tell us the truth about who we are which helps us to grow through their advice and wisdom.’ – Tasha Smith

‘For ‘Dragon Quest IX,’ one of the biggest things was being able to create your own character and your party members, too. The importance of it is that you can customize the face, the name, or something like that, so the party members are really a reflection of you. It becomes more of your own experience.’ – Yuji Horii

‘One thinks of toys and play as an area of great novelty and potentiality where all sorts of responses can be developed. The fact that adults are allowing their imaginations to have activity through toy kinds of objects is a further reflection of the belief in the imagination of the adult mind.’ – Brian Sutton-Smith

‘Melted down, silver is worth a little more than four dollars an ounce. But carved, inlaid, and engraved, and identified with a particular year, it becomes the direct reflection, often the literal record, of human history, our movement through time.’ – Peter Landesman

‘Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don’t just flash by but deserve some reflection.’ – Bobbie Ann Mason

‘My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I can wear at once. It makes me laugh when I catch sight of my own reflection – life is too short not have fun!’ – Liz Goldwyn

‘One grave and fundamental Keynesian error is to persist in regarding the interest rate as a contract rate on loans instead of the price spreads between stages of production. The former, as we have seen, is only the reflection of the latter.’ – Murray Rothbard

‘For me, stories were brothers, sisters and friends, filling the long hours between childhood and adolescence, holding up a true mirror in which I might find out who I was rather than a distorted reflection of who I was expected to become.’ – Debi Gliori

‘The need for reflection and restraint of power is what led Louis Freeh to order that all new agent classes visit the Holocaust Museum here in Washington so they could see and feel and hear in a palpable way the consequences of abuse of power on a massive, almost unimaginable scale.’ – James Comey

‘We do have our challenges. Some things don’t always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what’s not working right.’ – Bill Flores

‘I am a mirror to my neighbor, and in that mirror, he must see a reflection of Jesus. If that mirror is cloudy or distorted, Jesus’ reflection will be so vague it will hardly be seen.’ – Mother Angelica

‘When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.’ – Richard Branson

‘Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there’s a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who’s black, it’s an interpretation of that life.’ – Ava DuVernay

‘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.’ – Ava DuVernay

‘My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.’ – Pawel Pawlikowski

‘The meditative, calm sound is a reflection of my personality. I’ve got a silly and a crazy side, but it makes sense the music would come across that way. I do yoga every day and try to keep a sense of peace and calm in my life. I don’t have a lot of frantic energy.’ – Gretchen Parlato

‘The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male in America than Jay-Z does, by far. And that’s not a diss to Jay-Z. The crime rate in the black community was high before hip hop. Rapping about it is just a reflection of the life a lot of people are living.’ – John Legend

‘It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the interchange of sentiments and reflections in conversation.’ – William Godwin

‘I hope you’ll find that my campaign was a reflection of how I plan to govern – bringing people together, building coalitions, and finding common ground.’ – Doug Ducey

‘When you seek out – or seek to avoid – your own reflection, the modern city becomes a hall of mirrors: car windows, reflective walls, and plate glass are everywhere, transmitting a cacophony of different versions of you – this one too short, that one too wide, another one with a sickly color you’ve never seen before.’ – Alexandra Kleeman

‘Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be.’ – David Grann

‘Each time you see a Western movie, it’s a good reflection of where things are in the world at that time. It’s probably one of the purest forms of cinema that really tells you where the world is.’ – Antoine Fuqua

‘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.’ – Ben Schnetzer

‘Kindness is the No. 1 quality I look for in a man. You can see in how he treats anyone – from a CEO to a housekeeper – and it’s a reflection of how nice a guy is. Funniness and confidence come after that… When a guy approaches me, it’s fantastic if he can make me laugh.’ – Meghan Markle

‘What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.’ – Sabrina Carpenter

‘You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.’ – Mahershala Ali

‘Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.’ – Mahershala Ali

‘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.’ – Mahershala Ali

‘Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.’ – Ingrid Betancourt

‘I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter.’ – Laura Esquivel

‘Gasoline prices are a direct reflection of the cost of the raw materials to produce the gasoline, no different than any other product that you would buy, whether it’s a good or some other consumable, or it’s a luxury item. It’s all a function of what do the raw materials cost.’ – Rex Tillerson

‘That’s what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It’s not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they’re mirrors of our own reflections.’ – Edgar Ramirez

‘You don’t wake up one morning and say, ‘Today is going to be a comedy day.’ And the next day, ‘Today’s going to be a drama day.’ Things happen in life that are fun and light, and things happen that are heavier. You just have to move your way through life, and I think ‘BoJack’ is a good reflection of that.’ – Will Arnett

‘It’s important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced – as three-dimensional, as human – as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it’s a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.’ – Mahershala Ali

‘We live in diverse communities with all sorts of people from all sorts of different backgrounds. The more our entertainment can be a reflection of the world we live in, the better it is for all of us.’ – Mahershala Ali

‘The Rolling Stones… The Rolling Stones have a reflection to my music; I wouldn’t deny it. I think that’s honest.’ – Chuck Berry

‘I don’t know if it’s just me getting older or if it’s a reflection of times changing, but it just seems to me like among most of my friends and peers, there’s a lot more time being spent at home than out.’ – Mike D

‘Our work should be a reflection of society, and if you’re not concerned with including all of society, then I don’t really know what you’re doing making art in the first place.’ – Sasheer Zamata

‘TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.’ – Yvonne Strahovski

‘I know that ‘The Accident’ is not a completely accurate reflection of the reality of the book publishing world, which, like nearly any other business, consists mostly of people sitting in small offices staring at computer screens or reading or trying to stay awake in meetings.’ – Chris Pavone

‘I just want to make sure that I’m taking roles that are positive, real, honest reflections of African-Americans because I do think the media can put African-American women in the background. Then, unfortunately, what happens is, subconsciously, our culture begins to assess that as reality.’ – Kat Graham

‘A strange thing happens when Spielberg discusses his own work. His degree of self-criticism seems a direct reflection of each film’s box-office performance. You will not catch him complaining that the audience ‘didn’t get’ a film; if it didn’t do well, it generally didn’t deserve to.’ – Stephen J. Dubner

‘The premise of anything you do – whether it’s writing a song or any business – is ultimately that it hinges heavily on your belief in the thing that you’re doing and promoting and selling. It’s a reflection of who you are in a very deep way.’ – Isaac Hanson

‘Police departments are always a reflection of the society that they serve. Is there such a thing as ‘police culture?’ Absolutely. Is that culture isolated form the surrounding society? Absolutely not.’ – Don Winslow

‘I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of their personality.’ – Diana Gabaldon

‘Fashion and beauty is a reflection of what’s on the inside. And if you’re genuine, they match up. The core of who you are will be the same.’ – Michelle Carter

‘I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.’ – Matt Bomer

‘In 1998, Nasdaq started a project called Next Nasdaq – or what Nasdaq was going to become – and they decided to handpick some of the up-and-comers. I was chosen as one of the people. It was a great opportunity for me and, I guess, a reflection of the fact that I was seen as someone who was developing her career pretty well.’ – Adena Friedman

‘My collections are a reflection of my personality, and the satisfaction I get from wearing my own designs is indescribable.’ – Keerthy Suresh

‘To a certain extent, people’s behavior in a campaign is generally a reflection of how they would act in office.’ – John Hickenlooper

‘A lot of time when you’re out injured is spent with internal reflection and kind of looking at yourself in the mirror and deciding who you want to be and where you fit in.’ – Seth Rollins

‘We always say that fashion is a reflection of our times.’ – Dries van Noten

‘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.’ – Chance The Rapper

‘I think that business should be a reflection of who a person truly is.’ – Rohan Marley

‘I think the way you dress is a direct reflection out of what you will get out of your day; you make the effort, people will notice. You’ll feel better, and those around you will feel better.’ – Nick Wooster

‘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.’ – Yo Yo Honey Singh

‘Whatever is shown in a TV show is a reflection of society.’ – Kratika Sengar

‘Coming off ‘Reflection,’ what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.’ – Ally Brooke

‘The main thing for all of us was having a ballad, a slower song. Finally, they get to hear more of a vulnerable side to us! We didn’t really have that in ‘Reflection,’ and that’s something we all fought for.’ – Ally Brooke

‘My Barbie doll is definitely a reflection of me and my personality. My doll is so detailed, she even has my same beauty marks.’ – Ally Brooke

‘I truly try to create beauty and reflection and all of that as conscientiously and judiciously and minutely as I can.’ – Guillermo del Toro

‘We’re all reflections of the lives we lead.’ – Jaimoe

‘Hollywood is a reflection of a general climate that we live in.’ – Donna Langley

‘People often think that looking in the mirror is about narcissism. Children look at their reflection to see who they are. And they want to see what they can do with it, how plastic they can be, if they can touch their nose with their tongue, or what it looks like when they cross their eyes.’ – Anjelica Huston

‘Some of the most powerful memories are those when you are very, very young. Adult life is seen through the reflection of complex, rational thought.’ – Hisham Matar

‘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.’ – Georgina Campbell

‘Can a bank that is part of this society be sure that it has no bad apples? No, because, like in all other industries and companies, it’s about people, and what you see is the reflection of the good and bad in society. So you employ people that you think are honest, but you have to manage them more and more with an eye towards missteps.’ – Sergio Ermotti

‘No one would suggest completely ignoring news about your investments. Enron investors, for example, would have been well served to sell once early reports of accounting irregularities surfaced. But the key is to keep news in context and act only if further reflection or study indicates that the core thesis for an investment has changed.’ – Whitney Tilson

‘I don’t hate what I see when I look in the mirror. Even if legions of others don’t agree. I have accepted the reflection that reliably bounces back at me for its perks and its flaws.’ – Leandra Medine

”Welcome to the Dollhouse’ is great. Even though it’s about a girl in middle school, to me, that feels like the most honest reflection of what being a kid around that age feels like.’ – Jon Watts

‘If you are watching a fairy tale, that’s why you go to fairy tales: you want these uncomplicated stories and uncomplicated characters. But if it’s meant to be real life, you want there to be some reflection of your experience and have something you can hook into.’ – Clare-Hope Ashitey

‘Maintaining a sense of your personality grounds you in your space. I try and just make what I wear a reflection of how I feel at that moment, at that particular place in time.’ – Yara Shahidi

‘My lighting tends to use contrast as a reflection of the stakes in the scene. The higher the stakes, the more I feel I can get away with an exaggerated contrast.’ – Rachel Morrison

‘I hope that there’s a little black boy somewhere in Montana that never thought that he would see a reflection of himself, and he turns on the television, like, ‘Oh my God, thank you.” – Brian Tyree Henry

‘The idea of doing a buffer, sexier Riddler – I like that. I think he’s a reflection of Batman, and I think of him like a scary, evil Batman. Like Bruce Wayne without a conscience.’ – Tom King

‘For black Catholics, the papal visit is a time of anticipation but also a time of reflection on their difficult – but important – place within the Catholic Church in America.’ – Anthea Butler

‘Money can be a reflection of our perceptions of power, self-esteem, personal history, fears, and happiness.’ – Mary Pilon

‘A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become more aware of the necessity of a more harmonious relation between man and nature, we need to build cities which can connect with human spiritual needs instead of being merely functional.’ – Ma Yansong

‘After much reflection, I have concluded that the federal individual mandate, which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance starting in 2014, will not be upheld.’ – Ron Williams

‘In many ways, products are a reflection of their founders, and I consider myself a geek. But aside from that, Imgur just organically evolved into the epicenter of geek culture.’ – Alan Schaaf

‘I think that’s what a lot of writers do, create a totally fantastical scenario that is a reflection of something else going on in their life.’ – Matt Bellamy

‘Monsters can be scary, and they’re great, but they’re only really scary when they’re reflections of us and they show you the things you’re scared of might be true about your own nature.’ – Scott Snyder

‘I am an ‘other.’ As a queer, biracial man who occupies and embodies many different intersections of ‘otherness,’ I’ve spent my entire life seeking reflections of myself in the world around me to connect and relate to.’ – Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

‘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.’ – Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

‘Each time I turn on my own television screen and see reflections of myself in other courageous young LGBTQ-identifying actors and artists, I know that the dream is expanding. That would not be possible without LGBTQ Pride. Celebrate yourself, and the world will catch up.’ – Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

‘I’ve gotten a little bit pompous. When I get out in public, I really notice myself looking at my reflections as a I walk though. New York is not a great place for me.’ – Chip Gaines

‘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.’ – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

‘It occurred to me that memorials shouldn’t be grand. If you really want to honor the memory of a tragedy, you shouldn’t create areas of calm reflection. You should make people uncomfortable. Put them in the shoes of those who perpetrated and those who suffered. Then ask, would they be able to forgive in these situations?’ – Clemantine Wamariya

‘I was in Italy on vacation, and I saw my reflection in a mirror. I saw how unique my skin was and why people stop me on the street to ask about it. I started falling in love with it.’ – Khoudia Diop

‘I think a life of a human being is not something you can explain in a few interview questions. The stuff you do in the media is sometimes a great reflection and sometimes not a great reflection of who you are as a person.’ – Andreja Pejic

‘I work in musical theater because people keep writing quality stories in the genre, and I’m really all about investing in a piece that says something about our current time, that is, a reflection on who we are today.’ – Brandon Victor Dixon

‘My musical selections are a reflection of how I grew up. Because, back then, you could see Miles Davis and Ravi Shankar on the same stage. And nobody thought anything of it, other than the fact that it was great music.’ – Dianne Reeves

‘As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there’s great value in the contemplation and reflection that comes from reading a long body of work.’ – Elizabeth Berg

‘Every film that is made about the past is always a reflection of the present.’ – Kevin Macdonald

‘When I opened Milk Bar in November 2008, I was quite adamant about making sure the bakery was an honest reflection of life and food through my eyes. I had no intention beyond that.’ – Christina Tosi

‘We can read your heart rate from a webcam without you wearing anything – we can just use the reflection of your face, which shows blood flow.’ – Rana el Kaliouby

‘Wouldn’t you say that most of us are a reflection of or a reaction to the people who have been closest to us? I’m a reflection of my grandmother.’ – Bob Goff

‘When I was in ’97, I didn’t know I was in a very major moment. But with the privilege of reflection, I do. And that’s what artists should do – they should help illuminate and reflect the human condition.’ – Mara Brock Akil

‘We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read it.’ – Maryanne Wolf

‘When you’re working in cinema, you often have a very, very compressed schedule – very few weeks to just kind of go through that whole process of reflection and refining – and it has to be done.’ – Max Richter

‘My introduction to art history was like everybody else’s. You see an art history book that has works by Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Yes, these things are great. But I don’t see a reflection of myself in any of these things I’m looking at.’ – Kerry James Marshall

‘To me, if there is any sort of value added to the accumulation of knowledge over time, then the work of artists should be a reflection of that accumulated value, accumulated knowledge. You have to demonstrate that you have the sophistication to put that into play in the work you’re making.’ – Kerry James Marshall

‘Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at becoming another person.’ – Mia Goth

‘Comics are just mirrors. People can either laugh at the reflection or be disgusted by it.’ – Jermaine Fowler

‘I’m a mom… and I’m learning this being a parent, sometimes your child can be such a reflection of who you are. And I have to figure out when it is my ego that dictates how I parent and when it is what I think is best for my child.’ – Adina Porter

‘It’s amazing what we’ve been through already in our lives no matter what our age. Think of what we’ve seen, people we’ve met, our relationships, experiences, and accomplishments. Reflection is a powerful tool.’ – Tara Stiles

‘We all strive for balance, often moving to extremes to find ourselves somewhere in the middle where we can sustainably exist in optimal inspiration. Working toward balance takes a lot of ingredients. We need courage, reflection, attention, action, and a push-and-pull relationship between effort and relaxation.’ – Tara Stiles

‘As I considered Parker and his absurdist reflection in the Westlake-authored ‘Dortmunder’ novels, I wrote, ‘His natural ability to observe human behavior and to follow an idea, no matter how bizarre, through to its proper, rightful finish echoed the vision of an architect.” – Sarah Weinman

‘It took a lot of years of me on my own, coaching myself, to look in the mirror and love the reflection.’ – Alyssa Edwards

‘Burzum is the reflections of my personality. It’s my dreams and desires.’ – Varg Vikernes

‘Football stadiums are just a reflection of what is going on in society. Many times in stadiums, people just feel more relaxed and say what they think when they’re somewhere else.’ – Samuel Eto’o

‘I think cinema is a reflection of the society and whatever is being shown is because of the climate we’re living in. It is relevant, topical, and surely somewhere it’s impacting people who can relate to these circumstances.’ – Kiara Advani

‘You go on Instagram, and it’s just not a real reflection of what people do and how much pain people are in every day.’ – Alice Eve

‘There was a lot of reflection – I know that – wondering, ‘What in the hell am I doing?’ But it paid off.’ – Matt Nagy

‘A football team is really just a reflection of society. You’ve got 118, 120 guys on the team, you got a little bit of everything.’ – Dabo Swinney

‘More often than not as a quarterback, your performance is a reflection of the guys around you. I’ve been fortunate to be around some pretty good guys.’ – Alex Smith

”Reflection’ and ‘Going Nowhere’ would’ve been great singles because that’s the exact sound that we wanted to achieve.’ – Dinah Jane

‘I see reflections of what I love about myself in the love and care I receive from my friends, family, and co-workers who, in turn, allow me to love and care about them.’ – Asia Kate Dillon

‘I see guys who are in the gym all the time, but their bodies are not a reflection of that. They look the same from year to year, and that has to do with the fact that they’re not evaluating the effect of their efforts.’ – Phil Heath

‘The London Olympic Opening Ceremony was excellent. The mixture of old and new, of classic and contemporary was a beautiful reflection of Great Britain. Danny Boyle is a genius.’ – Ludovico Einaudi

‘When a film does well, everyone is usually happy and grateful, but for me, the impression the film leaves upon my mind is created during the process of filming; my memories are not a reflection of critics’ reviews and box office figures.’ – Jim Sarbh

‘Wrestling is a reflection of society, and it does have an impact on people.’ – Mustafa Ali

‘The skills gap is a reflection of what we value.’ – Mike Rowe

‘If I can inspire one spark of awareness or get a spark of introspection or reflection about someone else’s life, that’s a beautiful thing, in my opinion.’ – Noah Centineo

‘A national team is a reflection of its country’s football, and both Brazil and Argentina have earned respect for what they’ve achieved.’ – Dani Alves

‘There are dialogue writers for a movie, there is a script to be followed… whatever my character says is not a reflection on my personal opinion or principles in life.’ – Urvashi Rautela

‘My mother always taught us that any accomplishment my sisters or I achieve is a ‘feather in all our caps.’ Kathy, Kim, and I are always proud of each other. We feel that each of our lives is a reflection on all of us. We all want the best for each other.’ – Kyle Richards

‘The reason why everything I do is so different is not because I’m trying to be provocative; it’s simply a reflection of whatever was happening to me at the time I wrote that particular record.’ – Devin Townsend

‘If I get on the golf course, my basketball game is a direct reflection of how many rounds of golf I can get. So, the more rounds of golf, the better I play.’ – Andre Iguodala

‘Upon further reflection, I think that the things Alex Jones has said and done are so hurtful to so many people that a member of Congress should not grace that platform and legitimize it, and I would not go back.’ – Matt Gaetz

‘Time for creative ideation and quiet reflection is as much a luxury as is the physical beauty of the space you live in.’ – Gauri Khan

‘When you’re trying to inspire individuals across the country, you have to have a reflection that people can see themselves in.’ – Linda Sarsour

‘When I did ‘Baby Got Back,’ that was just a reflection of the African-American community. We’ve always liked curves, and a lot of people misunderstood it because let’s face it: 20 years prior to ‘Baby Got Back,’ the only images you saw of a black woman on television were she was probably 300 pounds and cleaning the house with a rag on her head.’ – Sir Mix-a-Lot

‘Baby Got Back’ was already a reflection of what was going on. I didn’t see it as this gigantic political statement.’ – Sir Mix-a-Lot

‘The holidays are a time of reflection, and I think it becomes really clear in people’s minds around this time of year what they want to get out of life, who they want to spend their life with, and what kind of person they want to be.’ – Chris Sullivan

‘The overall concept of ‘Only You’ is a reflection on the illusion of love, how we confront, understand and manifest our self identities within relationships.’ – Jihae

‘The way I see it, the prize money is a reflection of my on-court performance, but the sponsorships are something more personal, connected more to people and fans, and to my values.’ – John Isner

‘The struggle between Israelis and Palestinians is a perfect reflection of the struggle between fear and forgiveness that rages within us all.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘I used to hear on the radio people like Jack Benny or Bob Hope, but I never had any interest in their type of humor. I thought that I could do something more substantially meaningful with significant, thoughtful, analytical reflections on real life situations.’ – Jackie Mason

‘I get disappointed when players arrive and are not at peak condition. Ultimately that is the reflection of the set-up I run. Ultimately that is the reflection of me and my support staff.’ – Mickey Arthur

‘The dry academic tomes I wrote very early in my career were earnest reflections of the research I conducted, the analysis I applied and the conclusions I drew. And they had few readers, mostly other academics. I learned along the way and started including more and more stories in my work.’ – John P. Kotter

‘My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.’ – Martha Nussbaum

‘It’s definitely something that is a direct reflection in the mirror when you do a reality show. You can see what your flaws are and what you need to work on.’ – Summer Rae

‘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.’ – Sam Levinson

‘If we have poor coaches, that’s a reflection of me and a reflection of what we think we can give to the kids.’ – Tyrone Mings

‘My films are a reflection of the society I live in, what I see and observe.’ – Vetrimaaran

‘Terminator’ is a reflection of how the world is changing.’ – Natalia Reyes

‘You can see yourself in the mirror. You can see how you want your body to move. Everybody wants to look sexy when they’re dancing, so that mirror will be, you know, that reflection of yourself of how you will look in the club, so definitely use the mirror at home.’ – Big Freedia

‘There was an existential moment – I don’t know if I want to call it crisis – when I turned 50 and I felt ‘this is interesting; how did this happen?’ It affected me in a way I wasn’t expecting. It made me pause for reflection.’ – Bill Bailey

‘Holidays are reflection time and I always take ‘Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting’, by Lynn Grabhorn.’ – Jane McDonald

‘The harder we push forward into the unknown the more it intensifies the reflection of humanity. That’s what I really love about ‘Star Trek.” – Justin Lin

‘For me, success is being happy. I used to think it was lots of houses, lots of record sales, lots of stories to tell. But some massive life changes, getting a divorce and my dad dying, led to a huge period of reflection.’ – KT Tunstall

‘I’ve learnt to not look that deeply into what people say as it’s mostly a reflection of themselves.’ – Motsi Mabuse

‘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?’ – Roger Scruton

‘If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.’ – Jess Phillips

‘It’s torment to look in the mirror and not recognize the man in the reflection. How amazing would it be to love someone through their honest and ugly moments?! It takes a journey to work off the mask to become authentic and whole.’ – Israel Houghton

‘When I play under bright lights on TV, the reflection off the dart barrel could be distracting. It’s not high-tech stuff but I use the flame from the gas cooker at home to blacken the metal and dull them.’ – Adrian Lewis

‘Don’t dress for anyone else, dress so that you can stare at your own reflection in shop windows walking down the street.’ – Lady Amelia Windsor

‘Our attitudes are fostered by a society built on ideas of dominance, where the solution to crises are force and action, rather than reflection and compromise.’ – Frankie Boyle

‘My concept is drag queens are not a reflection of society, they are a fun house reflection of society where we bend, and twist and manipulate the anxieties we all feel.’ – Sharon Needles

‘Thanksgiving, for me, is a time for reflection.’ – Trish Regan

‘All of the records are direct reflections of how we were at that time in our lives, so when we play them, it’s very nostalgic and fun, but also it’s cool to see that they all still sound really relevant.’ – Chad Gilbert

‘Our kids are reflections of us. How we interact with others, even in a hostile situation… how we respond and our children see that is how they are going to respond.’ – Martin Luther King III

‘What is wrong is wrong but there has to be a layered narrative. And that is what makes ‘Mahabharat’ timeless. People find its characters realistic. They could see their reflection in people even today.’ – Puneet Issar

‘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.’ – Zoya Akhtar

‘I think professional wrestling will always be a reflection of how society is.’ – Aleister Black

‘Every actor has his own approach towards acting. I believe you do not become the character you are playing. You may get closer to it but you do not lose yourself. There’s just a reflection of the character in you.’ – Jaideep Ahlawat

‘Culture is a reflection of values.’ – Luciana Berger

‘Your home is the truest and most honest reflection of who you are, where you’ve been, and where you want to go.’ – Jeremiah Brent

‘People are understanding what it means to really create a space that feels like a direct reflection of you and I think with brands like Living Spaces, you can really start to take those chances for the first time.’ – Jeremiah Brent

‘As the cinema is changing, on-screen kissing, love-making scenes are becoming part of the narrative. I am not saying it is wrong, because it is the reflection of how our society has changed and become comfortable with it. But I am uncomfortable performing it on screen.’ – Amrita Rao

‘I often make a joke of my parents, because I come from a Nigerian background and there’s a stereotype in the Nigerian community that all of us are going to be doctors and lawyers, and that’s just how it is. But upon reflection, my parents were always really supportive of me doing music.’ – MNEK

‘Television is a sort of mirror of society, but for me, I never saw my reflection in it. Which makes it quite difficult afterwards to open up all the imaginative possibilities.’ – Maimouna Doucoure

‘My design style is really a reflection of my fashion style, which is what I started in, working in fashion.’ – Brandi Cyrus

‘When we get up in the morning, what we put on is very much a reflection of how we see the world and how we want it to see us.’ – Kenneth Cole

‘I’ve always believed that fashion is not just what you look like on the outside, it’s a reflection of who you are on the inside.’ – Kenneth Cole

‘The website is me. It’s a reflection of my personality and my interests. It’s the perfect marriage of my skills and experiences.’ – Perez Hilton

‘My films, sometimes, have my own reflections of life. They have life lessons I’ve had that I put across in a humorous or satirical way.’ – Shoojit Sircar

‘I’m a reflection of my mom, my brothers and everyone in my family. How I carry myself is a reflection of how they raised me. I’ve learned that.’ – Marcus Smart

‘Flamenco is the reflection of the street. It’s that thing that’s so beautiful, that comes directly from the people. It has so much truth, tragedy, falling in love, falling out of love, flamenco has it all. You can learn so much, that’s why it’s so incredible and so beautiful.’ – Rosalia

‘My music is a reflection of my way of thinking, and I take risks because I know I must. If I win, I win, and if I don’t, I still win.’ – Rosalia

‘In any piece of art, the artist pours themselves into it. It becomes a reflection of who they are and what they believe. That’s what it has to be. Otherwise it’s just a product.’ – Travis Knight

‘Nobody of us has ever seen ourselves! We see a reflection in the mirror.’ – Udo Kier

‘A leadership competition is not an ideal context for honest reflection. The aim is, after all, to win, not to learn and build.’ – Clive Lewis

‘In ‘Cape Fear,’ all that water and the reflections and these threatening and submerged images in the water – that signals the awfulness that is to come. We’re very good at awfulness. No, really, we do do some sweet titles, too.’ – Saul Bass

‘My music is a whole reflection of who I’m as an individual.’ – Vidya Vox

‘I think football is a reflection on life and society and you have to move with the times. I’ve moved with the times, I’ve had to.’ – Tony Pulis

‘Our films are now portraying the real woman of today, and thankfully, female characters are pretty close to reality. This is a welcome change, and I think it is a reflection of our society.’ – Supriya Pathak

‘The Villain wasn’t necessarily something I sat down and thought, ‘Oh this is going to be my character.’ It’s most like other great wrestling characters, where it’s more of a reflection of my actual character.’ – Marty Scurll

‘Living my life in conservation, I see far greater tragedies and crimes against wildlife than the loss of a few thousand badgers. The real reason so many people are so unsettled by the cull is its sinister reflection on the democratic process, on our government’s attitude to conservation and to science.’ – Steve Backshall

‘Life has highs, lows, loud and quiet moments, beautiful ones and ugly ones. Music is a reflection of life.’ – Bonobo

‘We have the right to be angry about our representation in the media. It’s just not a reflection of how we live our daily lives.’ – Eugene Lee Yang

‘There’s a reason we all cried when Gina Rodriguez won that Golden Globe. It didn’t matter if we’re Latina. We get it. We’re just like, ‘Thank you! Finally, a more accurate reflection of diversity!” – Eugene Lee Yang

‘I feel Kavya is a reflection of me in more ways than one. She is strong-willed yet vulnerable. She is ambitious yet she believes in family values. She stands for what is right and knows when something is wrong.’ – Madalsa Sharma

‘There may be connections between the nearest prison to Oxford these days, HMP Bullingdon, and other institutions of that name. I have yet to investigate these and, on reflection, probably won’t.’ – Crispin Blunt

‘I am flattered that so many people have resonated with my style and that beauty and fashion standards in the media continue to grow in their inclusivity and reflection of the real world.’ – Melissa Leong

‘Homes are always a reflection of the people in them, my whole job is to understand the psychology of the family I am designing for, the world of design they’d like to live within, be happy and comfortable in.’ – Sussanne Khan

‘What I loved about Radio 3 back in the olden days, when it didn’t give a toss about the youth, were the silences – socking great caesuras just left blank for quiet reflection.’ – Alexander Armstrong

‘Teams are often times a reflection of their coach both on the field and in the media.’ – Howie Long

‘I would love to design clothes. Bretman clothing would be a good reflection of my personality, with a super-extra, nonbinary, and non-gendered clothes that are made with quality sustainable fabrics.’ – Bretman Rock

‘You could always tell intent by how people spend their money. How people spend their money is a reflection of their heart.’ – Kirk Franklin

‘The core of what we do is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and my music is a reflection of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It’s not as much inspirational as it is spreading the Gospel.’ – Kirk Franklin

‘Tokyo 2020 was an Olympic Games of many firsts for India. The success of Team India at the Olympics is a reflection of how New India desires and aspires to dominate the world… even in sports.’ – Anurag Thakur

‘We need diversity onscreen. We need to be moving in that direction, because that’s a reflection of the world that we’re living in today.’ – Kiana Madeira

‘When you’re the co-founder you get to pick the people. So by definition for me it’s one of the best companies to work at because I made the company and it’s a reflection of me in some ways.’ – Evan Sharp

‘With music, every decision you make is a reflection on who you are – I’ll obsess over the color palette for a record and the promo materials. With acting, it’s not just your ideas. You’re one part of a working machine.’ – Alison Sudol

‘We get letters a few times a year from people that write papers on the show. You know, like, ‘Oh, my psychology or my cultural studies class – this is my term paper.’ Somebody wrote it as their thesis, about the social experiment of the show, because the show is a reflection of what’s going on in culture.’ – James Murray

‘Everyone knows that you need to have a period of reflection at the end of the season.’ – Marquinhos

‘The Christmas season can mean different things to different people, but for me, it’s a time of hope, giving and reflection.’ – Phil Scott

‘Our aid spend is a reflection of us as a big-hearted, open-minded and far-sighted nation.’ – Penny Mordaunt

‘I feel like the music should be a reflection of the culture and the world we’re living in.’ – Naughty Boy

‘Extroverts are energized by social interaction. I’m often exhausted by it. I am someone who needs personal time for deep thought and reflection.’ – Ritchie Torres

‘I think anytime you are in a team setting and there is any kind of acknowledgement, per se, I think it’s always a reflection of the coaching staff and the players and the organization, in my opinion.’ – Billy Donovan

‘I’ll tell you one thing: I found the perfect antidote for missing the cut at the Masters – moving into a new house. No time for too much reflection when you’re lugging your possessions backwards and forwards.’ – Shane Lowry

‘I would say that ‘Kahaan hoon main’ rather than being philosophical is very spiritual. It is about a girl who is facing new experiences which make her question aspects of her life and journey. It is a song about inner reflection and self-realisation, which are themes that everyone can relate to.’ – Jonita Gandhi

‘I’ve said so often to pastors, if your sermon can’t get out of your zip code throw it away. It has to be transcendent. If it can’t be translated into another language then it’s not a right reflection of the word of God.’ – John MacArthur

‘I grew up watching lots of different films, lots of different styles and genres from lots of different countries, so ‘Apostle’ is like a reflection of that eclectic taste I’ve had since childhood that has seen me consume as many horror films, thriller films, action films, and martial arts films.’ – Gareth Evans

‘Gutthi was a reflection of my experiences, my observations of various women that I saw and met in my life.’ – Sunil Grover

‘It’s so hard to keep anything in our heads for very long and we’re easily distracted, so I like projects that allow for us to sit in some kind of reflection of this world that we’re inhabiting.’ – Noah Reid

‘I was often filled with excitement to be given a platform to showcase Black history to others. I never questioned why Black history wasn’t taught in more of an in-depth way. On reflection, that’s the naivety of a child.’ – Judi Love

‘The candidates who get themselves elected are illusionists and prevaricators of the first order. We expect this of them. They’re a reflection of us, and they won’t get any nobler until we do.’ – Norah Vincent