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Source: Complete Essays

“Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.”

Inspiration Literature Common Folks Obvious Common Sense Sentiments Sentimental Common Folk

“Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.”

Way Feels Said Jobs Choices Dad My Dad Obvious Pursue Distraction

Author:Jason Mraz

“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”

Philosophy Seems Work Freedom Vision Seeing Obvious Obscure Judaism

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.”

People Firsts Long Effects Periods Dollars Obvious Global Warming Pennies Transactions Long Periods Of Time

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.”

People America Protect Obvious Cop Captains Shields Badges Protect You

Author:Judd Nelson

“Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.”

Ifs Way Humans Art Beautiful Spirit Wish Honest Art Is Obvious Human Spirit True Nature Not Honest

Author:Corin Nemec

“Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?”

Mind Firsts Enough Facts Purpose Protect Obvious Generalities Great Outdoors

Book:Journal of the Fictive Life

Source: Journal of the Fictive Life

“Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.”

Children States Obvious Life Changing Having Children

Author:Thandie Newton

“I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.”

Thinking World Important Country Hate Broken I Hate Trade Obvious Around The World Agreement Trade Agreements Devising

Author:Xavier Becerra

“I have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and even the work ethic to succeed - but who are so obsessed with an idea that they don't see its obvious flaws. Think about that. If you can't even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on?”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Moving Passion Cutting Mets Succeed Ethics Entrepreneur Obvious Acknowledge Obsessed Flaws Work Ethic Rope

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.”

Facts Religion Religious Morality Authority Obvious Deny Secular Sanctions Supplies

Author:Joseph Addison

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”

Men Firsts Duty Intelligent Depth Intelligence Obvious Thrive Intelligent Man

Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940

“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944

“People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.”

People Ifs Want Looks Heart Bigs Mines Jokes Assuming Obvious Breasts Bosoms

Author:Dolly Parton

“I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?”

Way Facts Girl Special Obvious Treatment Special Treatment

Author:Danica Patrick

“A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.”

Men Character Happens Age Youth Circumstances Aging Obvious Old Age Characteristics Superficial Observers Never Change

Author:Hesketh Pearson

“America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic.”

Facts America Republican Democrat Males Obvious Math Platforms Diverse Pale Rejected Polls Peril Demographics Stale Mosaics Census Tailored Electoral Process

Author:Christine Pelosi

“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.”

Inspirational Art Creativity Connections Harmony Obvious Problem Solving Inexorable

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.”

Government President Danger Obvious Concentration Pierce Disregarded

Book:Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.”

People World Trying Firsts Helping Vision Baby Genius Taste Majors Sells Perseverance Obvious Changing The World Founders Multiple Helping People Ebay Paypal

Author:Eric Ries

“If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.”

Ifs Wanted Hurt Victim Obvious Traits Disgusting Being Hurt Happy Friday Frida

Book:My art, my life: an autobiography

Source: My art, my life: an autobiography

“It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.”

Sides Speech Obvious Free Speech

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Never assume the obvious is true.”

Truth Assuming Obvious Assumption Peer Pressure Never Assume Obviousness

Author:William Safire

“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”

Source: Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga

“One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.”

Obvious Stores Online Selection

Author:Jeff Bezos

“Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.”

World Giving Long Home Spirit Opportunity Causes Community Lines Blood Standing Trade Obvious Noble Pentagon World Trade World Trade Center Long Lines American Spirit Noble Causes Giving Blood

Author:Joe Biden

“No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.”

Difficult Answers Creativity Obvious Problem Solving Questions And Answers Finding Your Path

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.”

Way Heart Play Shows Would Be Perfect Common Enemy Obvious Common Sense Showing Off Heroines Claws Julia Populist Finesse Sheffield

Author:Rob Sheffield

“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”

Needs Might Spiritual Science Wealth Interesting Attention Poverty Information Source Internet Obvious Rationality Overabundance

Author:Herbert Simon

“Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.”

People Years Stage Obvious Makeup Worn

Author:Robert Smith

“Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.”

Joy Politics Share Ought Higher Longing Mere Obvious Rage Mood Lust Confusion Triumph Planes Melody Capture Yearning Great Writers Aeroplanes Love Lust

Author:Tony Snow

“Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.”

Made States Investing Financial Obvious Uncertainty Unexpected Traders Flux Betting

Author:George Soros

“Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.”

Firsts Different Gay Yeah Obvious I Realized Ridiculous Stereotype Gay Friend

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.”

Generations Waste Capacity Negative Obvious Wasting Time Speakers Immense Obscure Concentrating This Generation Platitudes

Author:Arthur Hays Sulzberger

“Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.”

People Seems Individual Poverty Difficulty Workers Obvious Debt Harm Unemployed

Author:James Surowiecki

“Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.”

World Looks Girl Rights Fronts Regard Obvious Gender Access Instance Subtle Denied Womens Rights Stereotype Gender Stereotypes Access To Education

Author:Adora Svitak

“No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.”

Shows Purpose Names Nature Conditions Needed Concepts Evidence Illness Obvious Mental Illness Obscure

Book:Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

“I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit.”

Knows Wells Made Born One Thing News Iraq Obvious Afghanistan Destined

Author:Matt Taibbi

“Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?”

Needs Years Causes Vote Organization Election Obvious Forty

Author:Dorothy Thompson

“I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.”

Kind Play Roles Sweet Obvious Villain Charming Very Sweet

Author:Jacki Weaver

“One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.”

Way Walks Dog Mental Health Obvious

Author:Andrew Weil

“We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.”

“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”

Mind Science Learning Self Improvement Obvious Analysis Unusual Familiarity Being Different Familiar Things

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.”

Audience Obvious Clever Subtlety

Author:Billy Wilder

“It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.”

People Problem Humanity Quality Environment Century Keys Population Obvious Billions Quality Of Life World Population Human Population Population Problem Better Quality Of Life

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.”

Earth Church Ordinary Miracle Obvious Squares Yards Fables

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.”

Important Understanding Influence Function Obvious Conventional Realised Genetics Genome

Author:Robert Winston

“Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.”

Source: The use of lateral thinking

“You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.”

Knows World Needs Use Given Obvious Online Spheres Entering Telephones Offline

Author:Evgeny Morozov

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