Umberto Eco Quotes

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

Umberto Eco

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• I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Reflection

• When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Space

• The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Today
  • Question
  • Value

• The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Rich
  • Reflection
  • September

• I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.

  

  Mainbocher
  • Woman
  • Reflection
  • Self

• In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• Frantic administration of panaceas to the world is certainly discouraged by the reflection that 'this present' might be 'the world's last night'; sober work for the future, within the limits of ordinary morality and prudence, is not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Work
  • Future

• Alan Cranston understood power not as a reflection of status but as a tool with a purpose.' – Sen. Joseph Biden December 31, 2000 on Meet the Press

  

  Alan Cranston
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Reflection

• One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life.

  

  Matthew James Thomas
  • Life
  • Reflection

• I think it's critical that you feel you're working for a person who is committed to advancing your career.

  

  Andrea Jung
  • Career

• The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.

  

  Richard Marx
  • People
  • Song
  • Feeling

• My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I can wear at once. It makes me laugh when I catch sight of my own reflection - life is too short not have fun!

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Fun

• It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

  

  Alfred Loisy
  • God
  • Personality
  • Reflection

• Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Faith
  • Reflection

• We do have our challenges. Some things don't always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what's not working right.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Work
  • Reflection

• If there's any success that I've had, it is a direct reflection of the people I work with. We have a very smart team and an extremely hardworking team, both here in Washington and back in Illinois.

  

  Cheri Bustos
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

  

  Gerard De Nerval
  • Religion
  • Reflection
  • Return

• It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.

  

  Zoë Heller
  • Study
  • Reflection
  • Credit

• I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to see how it can become an intense personal experience. Manila can be chaotic and spiritual, dirty and divine, gritty and gorgeous all at once. If you don't find beauty and poetry here, you will never find it anywhere.

  

  Carlos Celdran
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Spiritual

• Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Rejection

• A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Reflection