453 Obvious Quotes for You to Enjoy

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. Confucius

Wisdom Goals Action Adjust Steps Reached Obvious Cannot

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

Intelligence Men First Duty Sunk Obvious Intelligent Which Depth Now

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. Steve Jobs

You Creative Creativity People New Things Saw Guilty Able Seemed Something Had Feel New Obvious Because How Were Did Just Experiences After While Little Them Ask Really Connect Creative People Connecting Things

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. George Orwell

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. Arthur Schopenhauer

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege. Steven Biko

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you. Harvey Mackay

Thankful Alone Saying You Big Understanding Thank You Someone Part Importance Obvious None Got Thank Big Part Where Subtle Whether Acknowledging Us Help Received Assistance

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. John F. Kennedy

World Problems Men Possibly Dream Solved Horizons Never Obvious Limited Were Cannot Realities Who Cynics Whose Things Need

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. Edward R. Murrow

See Seems Obscure Takes Longer Obvious Eventually

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. Daniel Libeskind

Life Experience Sum Sum Total Complex Statistics Total About Something More Participation Calculations Obvious Than Just Interesting Series

I have always believed that if you need to take your clothes off to get your man, you've begun to lose the battle. If you pull it off right, you can do it in a very classy way... Being sexy is about suggestion; it's about the tease. It's not about being obvious and forcing yourself out in the open. That takes all the fun out of being a woman. Bipasha Basu

You Man Woman You Can Do It Yourself Battle Forcing Lose Clothes Way Out Sexy About Classy Take Open Takes Obvious Always Off Very Begun Get Being Your Fun Tease Believed Right Suggestion Need Pull

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. Saint Augustine

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle. Sam Harris

World Matter Live Philosophy Atheism Simply Obvious Principle Overlooked Deny Refusal Unfortunately Which View Even

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves. Calvin Coolidge

Me Simple Problems Care Big Few Ought Our States Would Criticize Folks Simple Things Take Take Care Know Most Obvious Big Problems Themselves United United States Things

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. Raymond Chandler

Mind Country Way Fraudulent Constant Constant Flow Pretty One-Way More Trivial Obvious Advertising Caused Than Human Human Mind Conquer Thing Flow

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. Khalil Gibran

Art Step Concealed Toward Obvious

America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy, but all this is built on an unstable foundation which can be targeted, with special attention to its obvious weak spots. If America is hit in one hundredth of these weak spots, God willing, it will stumble, wither away and relinquish world leadership. Osama bin Laden

God Leadership Great World Will Power Stumble Military Tremendous Hundredth Possessed Weak Willing Relinquish Great Power Attention Unstable Economy Obvious Wither Spots Built Targeted Hit America Which Might Special Foundation Away

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

Money Made State Flux Markets Constantly Uncertainty Betting Obvious Unexpected

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. Heraclitus

Better Harmony Hidden Obvious Than

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar. Noam Chomsky

Animals Whatever Other Distinguishes Out Component Some Factor Perfectly Genetic Obvious Grammar Turns Theory Universal Humans

Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests. A. Philip Randolph

Food Live Negroes High Cost Almost Almost All Since Parties Democratic Obvious Shelter Wages Opposed Clothing Republican Workers Interests Suffer

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person. Alice Miller

People Strong Simple Free Victim Believe Difficult Every Humiliate Once Someone Simple Fact Fact Allowed Feel Obvious Another Does Very Person Childhood Should Who Need

Have you ever had that moment when you looked back on something and said, 'Well, gosh, that seems obvious now... why didn't I see it then?' I like to call this the Face Palm Epiphany. Oh, hindsight, you magical, humbling thing. Alethea Kontis

You Face Back See Magical Seems Something Had Like Looked Obvious Well Call Gosh Hindsight Said Oh Epiphany Then Moment Now Why Ever Thing Palm Humbling

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