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“The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.”

Long Sides Subjects Demand Reflection Clouds Intellect Leisure Thick Solitary Self Reflection Daily Business

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“The final product becomes a passionate reflection of all that was revealed to me about my subjects during intense moments of personal clarity.”

Moments Subjects Products Reflection Finals Passionate Intense Clarity Revelations Intense Moments

Author:Michael Bell

“Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots. Other people's thinking has always - both positively and negatively - jumpstarted my thinking. Quotes are also a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking. The quotes are part of those constructions and reflections. Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.”

People Thinking Way Feelings Process Acting Subjects Reflection Insight One Way Range Construction Connecting Positively Outlines Dots Prompts Acting Out Connecting The Dots

Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“There is a subject - there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that's sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.”

Ifs Thinking Men Want Reality Artist Sex Subjects Changed Research Reflection Core Seconds

Author:Russell Simmons

“There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in these restless and edgy poems. Conversational and kinetic, these poems chart the traces left by the shifting overlays of the templates of literature, rock-and-roll, and contemporary culture. As each poem in Still Life attempts to fix a focus upon a scene or subject, the protean natures under view draw the poet into the eddies and complexities of reflection. This is a powerful and moving collection of poems.”

“I like to move as much as possible and look at reflections, weird angles, subjects from airplanes and cranes. I feel sorry for the Jabba the Hut types who can't do this. Once an obese student told me that he wanted to be a war photographer. I said, "Really?" and then I shot him.”

Feels Looks Said War Wanted Moving Subjects Students Type Reflection Shots Sorry Photographer Airplane Angle Huts Obese Cranes

Author:Peter Menzel

“The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.”

People World Religious Subjects Policy Habit Worship Reflection Concerned Philosopher Various Enlightened Mutual Senate Indulgence Emperor Superstitious Toleration Magistrates

Author:Edward Gibbon

“Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great. Since you attract to you what you think about most, it is easy to see what your dominant thoughts have been on every subject of your life, because that is what you have experienced. Until now!”

Thinking Life Has Beens Past Easy Subjects Right Now Reflection Great Things Dominant Your Past Secret Law Of Attraction

Book:THE MAGIC

Source: THE MAGIC

“He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.”

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

“When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds.”

People Mind Long Feelings Spirit Wish Study Subjects Objects Masters Degrees Reflection Gains Seeking Yield Mastery

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Your right. We do spend a lot of time worrying about our looks, instead of focusing on what's inside. - Raven The artist has the power to capture that. To express what he thinks about the subject. I thought that was much more romantic then seeing myself in a cold, stark glass reflection. - Alexander”

Thinking Looks Artist Worry Seeing Subjects Cold Reflection Glasses Capture Starks Ravens

Author:Ellen Schreiber

“However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this special condition of organization of man has been gradually acquired at the close of a long period of time, with the aid of circumstances which have proved favorable? What a subject for reflection for those who have the courage to enter into it!”

“Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking”

Thinking Way Sports Subjects Reflection Clever Way Of Thinking Favorite Subject

Author:Vasily Klyuchevsky

“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.”

Writing Firsts Three Reading Literature Subjects Travel Elements Reflection Thirds Combination Exploration Funny Travel Tourists Tourism Reading Literature

Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! ... The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description!”

“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.”

Would Be Individual Doubt Special Subjects Reflection Letters Editors One Time Insignificant Publish Introduction

Book:Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public

Source: Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public

“The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument for self awareness, self observation and reflection on the circumstances of the subject trainee, both in his individual life and as a social being.”

“Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby coming to know it critically, but in the task of re-creating that knowledge. As they attain this knowledge of reality through common reflection and action, they discover themselves as its permanent re-creators.”

People Knows Reality Action Common Teacher Subjects Students Creating Reflection Tasks Creator Permanent Teacher And Student Unveiling

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.”

Government Ability Effort Liberty Subjects Degrees Reflection Determination Tyranny Willingness Relative

Book:From Dictatorship to Democracy

Source: From Dictatorship to Democracy

“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.”

Way Firsts Humans Wells Difficult Dark Human Beings Subjects Reflection Examination Difficult Subjects

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“Man is the individualised expression or reflection of God imaged forth and made manifest in bodily form. How is it, then, I hear it asked, that man has the limitations that he has, that he is subject to fears and forebodings, that he is liable to sin and error, that he is the victim of disease and suffering? There is but one reason. He is not living, except in rare cases here and there, in the conscious realisation of his own true Being, and hence of his own true Self.”