Win The Life

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

 

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

 

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

Rational: Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. (The Devil's Dictionary) - Ambrose Bierce

 

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. - Peter F. Drucker

 

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of. - William Shakespeare

 

They only babble who practise not reflection. - Edward Young

 

Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon's reflection. - Jalal-Uddin Rumi

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

They only babble who practise not reflection.-Edward Young

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

'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 think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.-Kathy Valentine

 

I'm a reflection of the community.-Tupac Shakur

 

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

 

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.-Melinda Clarke

 

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

 

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

 

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.-Marcel Marceau

 

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

 

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.-Anatole France

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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