Quotes About Obvious

One of the main things when you get notes from a studio is they don't want anyone to be confused ever, everything has got to be so obvious at all times unless it's a twist ending.

When you play a soldier, you play it to the hilt. Nobody talks about what's obvious. Something staring you in the eye, you look around it and grumble about the weather. Anything important will come out in its own time. Soldiers have nothing to look forward to, making patience an easy virtue, and sometimes it's not just a virtue, but a contest of indifference.

I want to show how difficult was the discovery of modern science, how far from obvious are its practices and standards.

To me, it seems pretty obvious that socialism is terrible. After all, do you know what's not terrible? Freedom.

Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard!

It is only when you try to refine the obvious, and give the distinctions greater precision, that you get into difficulties. For

Parisians had no doubt that, should the Huguenots succeed in seizing power in France, as it was obvious they were trying to do, the Catholic population would be either forced to convert or suffer annihilation. But

No. I have a place near Woodstock, but I've been spending more time here lately." Sylvia made a sound like she was clucking. "For one very obvious reason." I glanced at her and waited for more, but Gran said, "Now, Sylvia. Leave them be." I glanced swiftly at Rafe but he appeared oblivious.

The more partners I had, the more I realized Gregory and I were the best pair I'd ever come across. But in my pursuit of answers to all the difficult questions in my life, I missed out on the obvious ones right in front of my very eyes.

Direct action, straightforward statements; obviously, those were the keys to improving my life.

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

Nothing is more complex than avoiding the obvious

lthough the basic principles of economics are not very complicated, the very ease with which they can be learned also makes them easy to dismissed as simplistic by those who do not want to accept analyses which contradict their cherished beliefs. Evasions of the obvious are often far more complicated than the facts. Nor is it automatically true that complex effects must have complex causes. The ramifications of something very simple can become enormously complex.

Two things should have become readily apparent to you by now: First, I'm not the brightest bulb in the pack when it comes to obvious things, and second ... well, it's the same as the first.

When you can do nothing, what can you do? [...] This is the most amazing, yet most obvious and logical answer: that in the certainty of death, one should get as much out of life as possible. Paradoxically it is the absence of choice in this matter that allows us to have more inner freedom.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

A significant benefit of this is that when production incidents are shown in the same work systems as development work, it will be obvious when ongoing incidents should halt other work, especially when we have a kanban board.

And there was another elephant in the room. There were so many elephants in the room that it was getting positively crowded.

One of the facets of extreme originality is not to regard as obvious the things that lesser minds call obvious,

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

I didn't say who the Sun was; I was careful not to even look in her direction. But I thought that it must've been obvious to anyone with eyes to see: there she was in the front row, blazing.

So the boy's life is still in jeopardy," Ghastek said. Thank you, Captain Obvious . "It's being handled," Curran said. "I would like to be involved in that handling." "I'm sure you would," Curran said. "It's hard to believe, but I go whole days without worrying about your likes and dislikes.

Subtle like a runaway bulldozer

Philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious