Reflective Quotes

• 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.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Intellect
  • Powers
  • Reflective

• I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Picture
  • Feels
  • Surface

• In terms of whether my mom was influential, I think she instilled a certain way of thinking in me quite early: having a reflective mindset regarding my actions and trying to find the underlying reasons to behavior. I think that's quite helpful when you're trying to understand a character.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Character

• I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.

  

  Usher
  • America
  • Culture
  • Dark

• My theory is that if I can stay present in the moment in my life as frequent as possible the artwork will be more reflective of my nature and my experiences.

  

  Ruston Kelly
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Present

• Because I live in London I'm always at busy places like airports and gigs. When you're up in the mountains the air's so clean and there's nature and the awesomeness of the slopes. It makes me reflective and think about the bigger picture.

  

  Limahl
  • Picture
  • Because
  • Mountains

• Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.

  

  George Armitage Miller
  • Surprises
  • Carries
  • Reflective

• 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 cant, teach, forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

  

  Michael Ignatieff
  • History
  • Action
  • Books