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A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing. — Garrison Keillor

the LP sleeve acquires the same scuffs, knocks and wrinkles as its purchaser. It engenders the same affection as the ageing groove. Reflective — Richard Osborne

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. — Michael Ondaatje

One thing a narcissist doesn't like is to look in a mirror that is in any way genuinely reflective of what's on the other side of it. — Jay Parini

The best gift an educator can give, to get somebody to become self-reflective. — Randy Pausch

Clothing, hair and make-up are just reflective of how I am feeling at any given moment and that varies from day to day. — Mya

I even worry about reflective flea collars. Oh, sure, drivers can see them glow in the dark, but so can the fleas. — Jane Wagner

A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity — Carl F. H. Henry

When you find yourself in the presence of a lion, it's best to know which side of the cage you're on. — Joel T. McGrath

Utter ruin provokes soul-searching in even the least reflective of men. — Madeline Hunter

No reprimand in the mirror
Slow walk to Liberia
Slow dance across the Sahara
Slow unraveling of gray matter — Mellon Black

So now, when I look back, all I see is who we used to be and who we are now. And I wonder how anybody can recognize anyone at all. — Susan Pogorzelski

The heart is the best reflective thinker. — Wendell Phillips

It is difficult to assign to instinct our attitude towards an object which exists only for reflective men. — C.S. Lewis

A rush age cannot be a reflective age. — Ronald Knox

Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback. — Warren G. Bennis

I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose. — Kobe Bryant

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. — George Armitage Miller

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective. — Randy Pausch

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. — Jean Piaget

The people who could most benefit from the self-reflective ego-dissolving qualities of cannabis are the ones that want it to be illegal. — Joe Rogan

Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions — Dalai Lama

Tunner's presence created a situation, however slight, which kept him from entering into the reflective state he considered essential. — Paul Bowles

These are desparate times." - Stephanie Plum — Janet Evanovich

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence. — David James Duncan

I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker. — Madi Diaz

I don't mean to upset you, but reflective men often find themselves at a certain remove from the realities of life. — Cormac McCarthy

Light or luminosity is created by the way elements are juxtaposed. They become reflective and a radiance comes from putting different things together. — Merce Cunningham

Philosophy is the reflection of reflective mind. — Debasish Mridha

I look forward to the time when the membership of the Supreme Court's more reflective of the country it serves. — Patrick Leahy

I forgot the defective can be more than the whole — Thomas Hardy

I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it. — Ellen Barkin

We are all only men, defined by our choices. — I.E. Castellano

Currently she was midway through a bittersweet David Nicholls novel that any other time might well have made her self-indulgently reflective. — Freya North

Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something. — Bill Hybels

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work. — Edward Hirsch

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all. — Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place. — David Bowie

For a moment he wondered:what if this had all been a mask for the most terrible evil? The idea was too horrific to hold on to. — Richard Flanagan

Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive. — Michael Douglas

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations. — Carlos Castaneda

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. — Joseph Joubert

This album [Stroll] and all my songs that break barriers are more reflective of my personality. — SonReal

If everyone read the poetry of Pablo Neruda we'd be a more peaceful, reflective world. Poetry can save lives. — Laura Moe

No one shall deny me my own conclusions, nor my cat her reflective purr. — Irving Townsend

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. — Jim Rohn

Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic. — Brett Dennen

I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature. — Dylan Moran

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles. — Emily Bronte

I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before. — John Knowles

Never follow the crowd, for the masses are often misled. — Joel T. McGrath

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting. — Brad Meltzer

Be reflective if you must be armed. — Timothy Snyder

that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways. — Wally Lamb

Religion only helps; until and unless it degenerates into either ritualism or fanaticism, or worse the both! — Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

All knowledge is self-reflective. — Jerry Uelsmann

I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, and how I'm feeling. — Ladyhawke

Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency; — Frederick Douglass

I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection. — Antony Gormley

I'm a neat freak ... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know? — Jann Wenner

At the end of the 19th century, people were filled with thoughts of future hope, but at the end of the 20th century, it was fear, hate, and mistrust. — Joel T. McGrath

It is not difficult to get everything one needs; it is not possible to get everything one wants! — Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. — Albert Bandura

coffee can energize the industrious at dawn, calm the reflective at noon, or raise the spirits of the beleagured in the middle of the night. "It's — Amor Towles

A strong and variegated publishing environment helps create deliberative, reflective societies. Publishing — Michael Bhaskar

The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself. — John C. Maxwell

Faith-Defined beyond the confines of the mind. — Joshua Klassen

I am entirely convinced that what is more than anything else lacking in the life of the average well-intentioned man of to-day is the reflective mood. — Arnold Bennett

The greatest gift you can ever give yourself is a mind of your own. — Joel T. McGrath

Once the word becomes your kindred, the world becomes your home. — Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

Art has to be reflective of our society. — David Zayas

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective. — Tim Robbins

Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done. — John C. Maxwell

I want to ask heterosexual academic feminists to do some hard analytical and reflective work. To begin, I want to say to them: — Marilyn Frye

I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc. — Nicolas Roeg

You've got to find your bearing and stick to it. It's the road to happiness in this life. — K.E. Hoover

Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective. — Mary Oliver

Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning. — Gary Rohrmayer

The Republican base is not reflective of the whole country. — David Corn

The heart must not only feel, but also empathize with humanity for therein the reflective is ItSelf, in concert - Christ Consciousness — AainaA-Ridtz

I was a reflective child. — Michael Leunig

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight. — Faye Wattleton

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — W. H. Auden

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession. — Zoroaster

And so the beauty was in being alone; but it was also the pain. — C. JoyBell C.

It is always better to be a bookworm rather than being a dung-beetle! — Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. — John Ruskin

My wandering imagination never gives up on me and always finds ways to explore what my emotions entail. — Chimnese Davids

We never saw Google+ Circles or Facebook Lists as reflective of the way our friendships play out. — Evan Spiegel

Reflective listening is where you yell into a canyon and wait for the echo! — Dr Steven Bottomley

I want to look back. To look over my shoulder and see the Stop sign with huge reflective letters, pleading with Hannah. Stop! — Jay Asher

When you are looking at a person, you are not seeing him; you are seeing yourself through his reflective mirror. — Debasish Mridha

I think that the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes. — Christina Ricci

We chart delusions through collective agreement. — Siri Hustvedt

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling. — Damon Albarn

The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything. — Jennifer Niven

The disparities of income and wealth in the world today are an affront to any reflective person. — John Kay

I may be a tough fellow but I have a reflective side as well. Reflective as in I'll bash your head in with a ****ing mirror. — Thom Yorke

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics. — Peter Singer