Quotes about Reflective

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight. Votes: 3

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. Votes: 3

Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The heart is the best reflective thinker. Votes: 1

I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection. Votes: 1

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place. Votes: 1

I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature. Votes: 1

I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose. Votes: 1

I think that the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes. Votes: 1

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live? Votes: 1

The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels. Votes: 1

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. Votes: 1

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference. Votes: 1

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn? Votes: 1

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.' Votes: 1

While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR's values and also not reflective of my own beliefs. I offer my sincere apology to those I offended. Votes: 1

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. Votes: 1

Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, 'Those who can, do, those who can't, teach,' forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books. Votes: 1

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society. Votes: 1

I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument. Votes: 1

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel. Votes: 1

The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat. Votes: 1

Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically. Votes: 1

All knowledge is self-reflective. Votes: 0

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession. Votes: 0

Art has to be reflective of our society. Votes: 0

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven. Votes: 0

The Republican base is not reflective of the whole country. Votes: 0

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective. Votes: 0

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all. Votes: 0

Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive. Votes: 0

The best gift an educator can give, to get somebody to become self-reflective. Votes: 0

Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something. Votes: 0

No one shall deny me my own conclusions, nor my cat her reflective purr. Votes: 0

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Votes: 0

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics. Votes: 0

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful. Votes: 0

Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective. Votes: 0

Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback. Votes: 0

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. Votes: 0

This album [Stroll] and all my songs that break barriers are more reflective of my personality. Votes: 0

A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity Votes: 0

The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself. Votes: 0

A religious test for entering our country is not reflective of America's fundamental values. I reject it. Votes: 0

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations. Votes: 0

I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker. Votes: 0

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective. Votes: 0

I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, and how I'm feeling. Votes: 0

I look forward to the time when the membership of the Supreme Court's more reflective of the country it serves. Votes: 0

Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic. Votes: 0

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight. Votes: 0

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles. Votes: 0

I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know? Votes: 0

I even worry about reflective flea collars. Oh, sure, drivers can see them glow in the dark, but so can the fleas. Votes: 0

The people who could most benefit from the self-reflective ego-dissolving qualities of cannabis are the ones that want it to be illegal. Votes: 0

Light or luminosity is created by the way elements are juxtaposed. They become reflective and a radiance comes from putting different things together. Votes: 0

I can be calm and reflective from time to time and other times I can have a burst of energy, that's just me. Votes: 0

I want to ask heterosexual academic feminists to do some hard analytical and reflective work. To begin, I want to say to them: Votes: 0

I want to look back. To look over my shoulder and see the Stop sign with huge reflective letters, pleading with Hannah. Stop! Votes: 0

Clothing, hair and make-up are just reflective of how I am feeling at any given moment and that varies from day to day. Votes: 0

It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences Votes: 0

A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they're more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story. Votes: 0

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society. Votes: 0

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all. Votes: 0

The reflective person opens up her inner world and embarks on the greatest adventure that life has to offer – getting to know and understand oneself. Votes: 0

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building. Votes: 0

But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions. Votes: 0

The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string. Votes: 0

What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world? Votes: 0

Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts. Votes: 0

She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it. Votes: 0

You encounter, at its core, a subjective Reality, one based on meaning and value reflective of your own Self, not an objective universe, cold, particle-based and indifferent as science projects. Votes: 0

To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance. Votes: 0

President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against black people in Chicago is reflective of Mr. Emmanuel's values. Votes: 0

We need teacher educators who are hungry to learn about and implement contemporary approaches to teaching and learning in their own classrooms and who are reflective about their work with their students. Votes: 0

Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country. Votes: 0

Soul, love, joy and natural beauty shines first from within. Make time for quiet reflective moments. Be still and know there is more than just Botox and pink martinis for women over 40. Votes: 0

If you're in a motion-capture studio, you have spherical, reflective markers, which are picked up by cameras that emit infrared - it reflects it, and then the cameras pick up the data. Votes: 0

Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense. Votes: 0

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way. Votes: 0

You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are. Votes: 0

It's very interesting to me that the nationalist movement in Scotland has become so positive and self-reflective rather than anti-English. The referendum in 2014 was peaceful, for all its deeply and passionately divided people. Votes: 0

Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely self-reflective, and all they see is themselves wherever they go. Votes: 0

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am. Votes: 0

...there is a danger of churning out students who are rapid processors of information but may not necessarily be more reflective, thoughtful, and able to give sustained consideration to the information that matters most. Votes: 0

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence. Votes: 0

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country. Votes: 0

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country." Votes: 0

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn. Votes: 0

Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become Votes: 0

When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes. Votes: 0

No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretical intuitions about these things into reflective equilibrium by way of armchair theorising. Votes: 0