Quotes by Obvious Things Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. Alain de Botton obvious-thingstoo-lateinspirational The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar. Andy Summers obvious-thingsguitarsound The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Arthur Conan Doyle obvious-thingslifeworld When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up. Bertolt Brecht obvious-thingsmeanworld 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. Blake Nelson obvious-thingscuttingthinking The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument. Brian Eno obvious-thingscomfortdoe It's more like there are some really obvious things that are different and then lots and lots of smaller things, lots of things about who lives and who dies, civilizations that rose and fell, all the way down to individual characters. That becomes the state of where you left your galaxy. The endings have a lot more sophistication and variety in them. Casey Hudson obvious-thingscharactercivilization [Albert Camus] also says that nothing is true which forces exclusion. From that, you're obliged to accept contradictions if you don't want to reject certain obvious things about life, certain evidences. If you create a system, and you say 'here there is truth', in that kind of pathway [chemin], then you'll evacuate all the other pathways and you'll kill life. It's up to each individual. Catherine Camus pathwaysobvious-thingswant It's the obvious thing to say but artists want to be able to tell all kinds of stories and tear down every kind of wall, to look at ourselves and examine who we are and just get deeper insights into what makes us human beings. Anything that could possibly prevent that in our near future horrifies me to no end. Christian Slater obvious-thingswallartist Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened. Christopher Walken obvious-thingshuntersopportunity Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize David Archuleta obvious-thingsive-learnedrealizing When you go to that other country you realize that in France and in England, you don't ask somebody what they do for a living when you meet someone. A lot of the obvious things, the shortcuts we take in America - in America you can talk about money all you want. You can ask how much they make, rent they pay, how much their house costs and how much their car costs, and they'll feel comfortable telling you. But it's scandalous to ask anyone in England or France a question like that. David Sedaris obvious-thingscountryamerica 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. Denis Hayes obvious-thingssmartrunning There are a few obvious consequences and perhaps one subtle possibility. One obvious thing is that, to stimulate the economy, President Obama has committed to creating millions of green jobs that will leave a legacy - much as Roosevelt's public works did during the new deal. Denis Hayes obvious-thingscreatingjobs One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it. Dennis Ritchie obvious-thingsobvioustoo-much I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated. Dylan Moran obvious-thingsbelievethinking I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for. Frank Gehry obvious-thingscarclients What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: "as above, so below, as within, so without." Fred Alan Wolf obvious-thingsancientbelieve Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing. Fred Wilson obvious-thingspeopleideas I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom. Geoff Dyer obvious-thingsboredomlife-is123»
