Obvious Things Quotes

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: "as above, so below, as within, so without."

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.

Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.

I guess it's kind of the obvious thing for me to do 'cuz it's what I grew up listening to. The songs growing up and everything kind of seem like old music to them, but to me, it's just... good music. And of course I did grow up in England in the 21st Century and that does come into it as well.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.

Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well.

So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.

The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.

People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.

Be nice to each other. Not a lot, but seems like the most obvious thing.

People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with a sense of discovery, and it worries me.

From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

I want to make sure to fix these obvious things - like keeping the box CLEAN! Another thing that might affect this [cats going outside the litter box] is if you put the litter box in a laundry room where people are walking by there all the time, the cat might feel kinda too exposed. When you gotta poop, you know, it takes a little longer. You want a little more privacy.

And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody.