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“Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.”

Men Way Looks May Use Language Written Stage Conversation Reflection Regard Profanity Family Man Written Language

Book:States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America

Source: States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America

“All things, all circumstances that occur outside ourselves, on the stage of this world, are exclusively the reflection of what we carry within. With good reason then, we can solemnly declare that the 'exterior is the reflection of the interior.' When someone changes internally and if that change is radical, then circumstances, life and the external also change.”

Ifs World Reason Stage This World Circumstances Reflection All Things Radical Interiors Exterior

Book:Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology: The Gnostic Method of Real Spiritual Awakening

Source: Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology: The Gnostic Method of Real Spiritual Awakening

“No product is an island. A product is more than the product. It is a cohesive, integrated set of experiences. Think through all of the stages of a product or service - from initial intentions through final reflections, from first usage to help, service, and maintenance. Make them all work together seamlessly. That's systems thinking.”

Thinking Firsts Helping Together Stage Products Reflection Intention Finals Islands Working Together Initials Integrated Maintenance Usage Systems Thinking

Author:Donald A. Norman

“If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work.”

Ifs Loses Break Stage Reflection

Author:Peter Megargee Brown

“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.”

Reality House Perfect Half Stage Losing Reflection Mirrors Quitting Staring I Quit Modelling

Author:Grace Jones

“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.”

People Ifs Way Levels Stage Reflection Hats Blinded

Author:Steven Wright

“Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character who appeared only once in a short story waits now in the wings, concealed by the curtain, for his next appearance on-stage. Not one of them has ever broken free of his familial ties with me and disappeared for ever - at least, not within the confines of my heart.”

Years Heart Character Stories Next Waiting Stage Broken My Heart Reflection Wings Appearance Ties Intimate Short Story Portions Curtains Concealed Forged

Author:Shusaku Endo

“You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.”

Ifs Moments Existence Stage Love You Reflection Madness

Author:Anais Nin

“It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.”

Men Has Beens Hands Impossible Stage He Man Revolution Reflection Constitution Fingers Critical Perceive Relief Almighty Pious Federalist Papers

Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

“The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as it must have been unexpected. It is impossible for any man of candor to reflect on this circumstance without partaking of the astonishment. It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.”

Source: The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus

“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.”

Moments Levels Doubt Stage Return Reflection Performances Preparation Subconscious Unconsciousness

Author:Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“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.”

Feels Hands Seems Stage Reflection Scripts Glasses Flames Touching Helpless

Author:Terence Fisher