#reflect

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#candle #light #mirror #reflects #spreading

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#anything #blindly #consequences #creating #failing

And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#just #me #nice #only #reflection

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection. ↗

— James Wolcott

#divide #folly #holding #into #just

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#disintegrating #entirely #force #formative #liberalism

The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda. ↗

— John Yoo

#abu #against #al #apply #between

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#complicated #i #i think #kinds #movies

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity. ↗

— George Grosz

#both #clarity #closely #drawings #every

Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#congress #course #does #each #genesis

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#becoming #biggest #cannot #change #change things