#reflect

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#change the world #changes #really #reflect #washington

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known. ↗

— May Sinclair

#aware #being #ceased #ever #excitement

And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started. ↗

— James Young

#great #great stuff #group #i #light

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#reflection #beauty

Oh fair enough are sky and plain, But I know fairer far: Those are as beautiful again That in the water are; The pools and rivers wash so clean The trees and clouds and air, The like on earth was never seen, And oh that I were there. These are the thoughts I often think As I stand gazing down In act upon the cressy brink To strip and dive and drown; But in the golden-sanded brooks And azure meres I spy A silly lad that longs and looks And wishes he were I. ↗

— A.E. Housman

#nature #pool #reflection #reflections #river

The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#from #memories #reflections #dreams

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#dreams

He grimaced at that, for he liked to believe he was master of his own fate. 'You think we should all rush madly down the paths of destiny?' 'I think, Lord, that when fate grips you, you do well to put reason aside. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#experience #fate #friendship #intuition #life

Encouraging employees to interact directly with the environment is just an interesting exercise until you debrief their experiences and encourage reflection. ↗

— Julie Winkle Giulioni

#employees #reflection #experience

It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth. ↗

— A.C. Grayling

#reflection #truth #faith