#reflection

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#ads #any #archaeologists #day #discover

I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#biggest problems #citizens #clear #clear message #constructive

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#act #bolt #called #classes #distinct

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. ↗

— Jean Paul

#cannot #character #clearness #discover #easily

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#divides #how #partitions #reflection #remembrance

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#fragmented #general #i #i think #me

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure. ↗

— John Woolman

#diversions #flock #going #greatest #greatest pleasure

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#find #fit #image #love #love is

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#deep #personal #reflection #such #voice

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#catch #how #human #human being #i