Quotes about Superficial

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. Votes: 6

I am a deeply superficial person. Votes: 6

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. Votes: 6

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. Votes: 6

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. Votes: 6

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. Votes: 6

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world. Votes: 6

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point? Votes: 6

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe. Votes: 6

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. Votes: 6

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought. Votes: 6

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. Votes: 4

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial. Votes: 4

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. Votes: 4

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love. Votes: 4

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. Votes: 4

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer. Votes: 4

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn. Votes: 4

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. Votes: 4

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. Votes: 4

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. Votes: 4

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible? Votes: 4

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking. Votes: 4

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching-there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. Votes: 4

Superficial goals lead to superficial results Votes: 3

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility. Votes: 3

Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting. Votes: 3

Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities. Votes: 3

Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities. Votes: 3

Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today. Votes: 3

I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow. Votes: 3

As I was reading the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] I kept thinking, "Sweetie, you are dancing as fast as you can!" Votes: 3

I've spent, like, over a million dollars on that Superficial album, so you will not be getting new music from me unless you'd like to GoFundMe. Votes: 3

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge. Votes: 3

Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility. Votes: 3

Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil. Votes: 3

Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music. Votes: 3

Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people around them do, they do, too. That's a sad and plastic life-routine and comfortable, maybe, but still sad. Votes: 3

And just as there are no words for the surface, that is, No words to say what it really is, that it is not Superficial but a visible core, then there is No way out of the problem of pathos vs. experience. Votes: 3

Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs. Votes: 3

I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity... Votes: 3

It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they? Votes: 2

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful. Votes: 2

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic. Votes: 2

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them. Votes: 2

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial. Votes: 2

At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial... like being thankful for my Louboutins. Votes: 2

Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff. Votes: 2

If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow. Votes: 2

For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile. Votes: 2

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply. Votes: 2

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground. Votes: 2

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking. Votes: 2

I don't say I create. I copy, of course. I've never been interested in the point of view of the tailor or creator. Fashion is a visual impression. This is why I often refuse the name of fashion designer. It's a superficial, stupid job. The social-psychological aspect is more interesting. Votes: 2

Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment. Votes: 2

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it? Votes: 2

To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo. Votes: 1

I am deeply superficial. Votes: 0

I'm a deeply superficial person. Votes: 0

I've never been no superficial cat. Votes: 0

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony. Votes: 0

Never lose your sense of the superficial. Votes: 0

Image is powerful. But image is also superficial. Votes: 0

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy. Votes: 0

People are much more important than superficial environments. Votes: 0

Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger. Votes: 0

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. Votes: 0

When we are angry, killing people is too superficial. Votes: 0

Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial. Votes: 0

To line only for some unknown future is superficial. Votes: 0

I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous. Votes: 0

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Votes: 0

Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface. Votes: 0

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial. Votes: 0

Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis. Votes: 0

What Wikileaks exposed is kind of superficial in a way. Votes: 0

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial. Votes: 0

Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress. Votes: 0

You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed. Votes: 0

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial. Votes: 0

Lazy and superficial men and women do not produce superior work. Votes: 0

Don't buy into a superficial reality. It has an expiration date. Votes: 0

L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial. Votes: 0

Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false. Votes: 0

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline. Votes: 0

It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work. Votes: 0

Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone. Votes: 0

To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial. Votes: 0

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial. Votes: 0

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds. Votes: 0

Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating. Votes: 0

It's not being superficial, but looks do attract me from across the gym. Votes: 0

Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring. Votes: 0

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. Votes: 0

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial. Votes: 0

Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial. Votes: 0

Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind. Votes: 0

God dwells only in the depths of your heart; he detested the superficial superficiality. Votes: 0

Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble. Votes: 0

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me. Votes: 0

The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial. Votes: 0

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone Votes: 0

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out. Votes: 0

Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper. Votes: 0

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial. Votes: 0

How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way. Votes: 0

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt. Votes: 0

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. Votes: 0

I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground. Votes: 0

You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow. Votes: 0

The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy. Votes: 0

On a superficial level, I like girls with dark hair - I'm a sucker for that. Votes: 0

A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me. Votes: 0

The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again. Votes: 0

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it? Votes: 0

The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him. Votes: 0

In brief, without being mindful of death, whatever Dharma practices you take up will be merely superficial. Votes: 0

Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial. Votes: 0

I hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad. Votes: 0

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs. Votes: 0

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness. Votes: 0

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small. Votes: 0

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer. Votes: 0

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial. Votes: 0

Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all. Votes: 0

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it. Votes: 0

Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging. Votes: 0

How we look - though it is superficial and immutable - has a huge impact on our lives. Votes: 0

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people. Votes: 0

In my family, Fashion was something we never talked about, it was thought of as kind of superficial. Votes: 0

I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases. Votes: 0

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject. Votes: 0

The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie. Votes: 0

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation. Votes: 0

He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties. Votes: 0

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality. Votes: 0

If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are. Votes: 0

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are. Votes: 0

The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural. Votes: 0

Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers. Votes: 0

Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that. Votes: 0

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. Votes: 0

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. Votes: 0

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities." Votes: 0

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities. Votes: 0

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant. Votes: 0

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. Votes: 0

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. Votes: 0

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial Votes: 0

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. Votes: 0

I feel that sometimes we are so distracted by superficial things, we forget what really matters: cherishing those around us. Votes: 0

We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness. Votes: 0

No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly. Votes: 0

Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity. Votes: 0

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Votes: 0

I think sexiness in most people - and this is going to sound superficial - is definitely something you don't plan. Votes: 0

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself. Votes: 0

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. Votes: 0

Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii. Votes: 0

In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display. Votes: 0

There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism Votes: 0

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so. Votes: 0

The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities. Votes: 0

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. Votes: 0

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial. Votes: 0

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost. Votes: 0

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things. Votes: 0

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. Votes: 0

People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am. Votes: 0

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me. Votes: 0

A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence. Votes: 0

There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation. Votes: 0

The Internet is just one big gossip chamber - that's why it's so fascinating and entertaining. It's a fabulous platform for superficial communication. Votes: 0

It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart. Votes: 0

People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations. Votes: 0

I didn't know about the fashion world, or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of it. Votes: 0

I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us. Votes: 0

To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect. Votes: 0

I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part. Votes: 0

The day that lay before (was) full of infinite possibilities, though in a million superficial ways it was identical to the day before. Votes: 0

When you are in a relationship, you want the other person to appreciate the things you like. It sounds superficial, but it's nice. Votes: 0

Pleasure to me is wonder"”the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. Votes: 0

Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context. Votes: 0

Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed. Votes: 0

What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all. Votes: 0

Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive I wouldn't be working at all. Votes: 0

A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion. Votes: 0

You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity. Votes: 0

When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent. Votes: 0

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories. Votes: 0

We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow. Votes: 0

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness. Votes: 0

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. Votes: 0

Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation. Votes: 0

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream. Votes: 0

I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'm far too superficial for that. I just act instinctively. Votes: 0

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial. Votes: 0

The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one's devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee. Votes: 0

We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial. Votes: 0

His (God) love is not a passing fancy or superficial emotion; it is a profound and unshakable commitment that seeks what is best for us. Votes: 0

I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion. Votes: 0

Beauty runs skin deep not on superficial assumptions or criticisms of many people. Live with a beautiful mind and heart. Live with a beautiful soul. Votes: 0

The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less. Votes: 0

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at ... Votes: 0

As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth. Votes: 0

If we don't want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we're stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions. Votes: 0

Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth. Votes: 0

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge. Votes: 0

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth. Votes: 0

Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power and control over you. Votes: 0

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality. Votes: 0

I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain. Votes: 0

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy. Votes: 0

I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly Votes: 0

I'm a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! - Gideon Stargrave Votes: 0

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge. Votes: 0

Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful. Votes: 0

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived. Votes: 0

Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family. Votes: 0

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral. Votes: 0

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live. Votes: 0

In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations. Votes: 0

The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever. Votes: 0

Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great challenges of life! Votes: 0

The process of change does not occur on superficial levels, through mere 'positive thinking.' It involves exploring, discovering, and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes toward life. Votes: 0

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing Votes: 0

The entire partying lifestyle was superficial in my experience, and most of my friendships were as deep as a shot glass and as short-lived as a pack of cigarettes. Votes: 0

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds. Votes: 0

The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable. Votes: 0

I never utter my real feelings about anything. My lighter, superficial side will always be too quick for the deeper side of me, and that's why it always wins. Votes: 0

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind. Votes: 0

An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible. Votes: 0

There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye. Votes: 0

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency. Votes: 0

Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground. Votes: 0

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange Votes: 0

Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. Votes: 0

Do you know anything about fashion magazines? Being treated like superficial bimbos by men like you, and having to write about designer brands. Do you know what that feels like? Votes: 0

I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things I love the most. Votes: 0

the tormented world cries out for internationhood, for co-existence in a harmony of diversity and mutual aid, for an end to self-segregation along secondary or superficial or downright imbecilic lines. Votes: 0

We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them. Votes: 0

The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view. Votes: 0

People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but its actually not. As an industry, it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it. Votes: 0

The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial. Votes: 0

The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial. Votes: 0

Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. Votes: 0

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum. Votes: 0

If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way. Votes: 0

Hollywood Don't Surf!' is really about how Hollywood's superficial view of surfing culture has influenced popular culture and the story of what happened when real surfers tried to change that. Votes: 0

Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction. Votes: 0

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed. Votes: 0

Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build? Votes: 0

One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and being looked at, being assessed for really superficial stuff. Votes: 0

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre. Votes: 0

My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless. Votes: 0

We all, as human beings, have different layers, and if we become one-dimensional or really superficial, then I still think there are things that happened that got us to that place. Votes: 0

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account. Votes: 0

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly. Votes: 0

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct. Votes: 0

On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely. Votes: 0

I have no Facebook page or Twitter - I don't participate in it, and I don't like it particularly. I mean, it's a form of interaction, which strikes me as extremely superficial. Votes: 0

[W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused. Votes: 0

Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it. Votes: 0

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it. Votes: 0

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure. Votes: 0

I don't like clothes that constrict. The idea is that they should accompany and help you. There's nothing superficial about getting dressed. Clothes can give you self-confidence and help you be yourself. Votes: 0

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity. Votes: 0

The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power. Votes: 0

When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of ghosts, of zombies, or even fear of dying. Votes: 0

Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing. Votes: 0

War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly. Votes: 0

The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth. Votes: 0

Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute. Votes: 0

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. Votes: 0

It is superficial to fall in love with someone looking at their face. To me I need to discover the person. I would never look at someone and exclaim - He is the one! Votes: 0

Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change. Votes: 0

Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value. Votes: 0

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. Votes: 0

It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial. Votes: 0

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external. Votes: 0

A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy. Votes: 0

I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical. Votes: 0

When you're obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you'll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one. Votes: 0

Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else. Votes: 0

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that. Votes: 0

I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work. Votes: 0

The Warrior Diet is the only diet today that challenges all common dietary concepts and offers a real alternative—guidelines that are not based on superficial restrictions, but rather on true principles of human nutrition. Votes: 0

Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs. Votes: 0