Obvious Quotes - Page 7

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

All that is obvious detracts completely from all that is not.

The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.

One thing is for sure. The Drive-By Media is populated with people who are not just biased and bigoted and prejudicial. It's obvious that they are also the victims of an absolutely pathetic education system.

A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.

I find that the interesting challenges, because there's obvious things where, you know, don't be unethical, don't be evil, you know, don't break the law, don't do immoral things, those are all straightforward and don't create ethical dilemmas. The thing that's interesting is when you actually have multiple interests at stake and you have to kind of navigate your way through it.

Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

There's the obvious shift in the tech industry. I'm not really politicized about the whole thing, but it's definitely clear that rent is harder and it's harder for musicians or artists or someone not making a ton of money to live comfortably.

Determine where you are going and how you will get there will become obvious.

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

If there's a big problem and you've got the right people with you, usually the answer emerges and you do what's the obvious thing to do. I don't think of myself as some great manager or great leader. I've been very lucky to be in the positions that I've been in. I meet a lot of people and I've grown a lot of companies, and I meet a lot of CEOs at big enterprises. I'm always so surprised at how much they seem to know. It doesn't always seem to be correlated to how well they actually do.

Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?

Success is a refined study of the obvious

Obama wants to build such things as smart electrical grids and high-speed rail lines, which will offer big environmental improvements. Another obvious thing is that large-scale project financing is virtually frozen, so a lot of renewable energy projects are on hold. If the system doesn't get unclogged before the developers run out of cash, they will be cancelled. Money matters, and we are racing against time.

Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.

Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened.

I'd overlooked the obvious because my focus had always been elsewhere! All along, this that I had been seeking was already here.

But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were always cracking up how if you wrote the simplest, most obvious thing in the world people thought you were a genius.

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.

When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.