Quotes About Reflection

It struck Glenn how their whole life had been made up of such little things.

Deeper in their hearts, they were debating what kind of man they wanted their son to be.

But a deeper transition affected people of color in this dazed context. Before course selections and extra-curricular sign-up sheets, before bags could even be unpacked in rooms, black students had to situate themselves within their own race. The process was complicated, conflicting, usually silent, highly fraught, and wholly invisible to their white classmates. Most of whom had never actively had to consider the role of race in their lives.

Our collective information regarding his death was still limited, which brought forward the sadder fact that, at the end of it all, none of us had actually known Rob as well as we thought we did, as well as we should have, as well as—with just a little more effort—we could have.

Some flavor of all of this would have remained undiscovered to me. If you try to observe the world for long enough through the perfect lens, then one day it will surely settle permanently into place, and then every object is a still life. You live in the moments between blinks.

If you try to observe the world for long enough through the perfect lens, then one day it will surely settle permanently into place, and then every object is a still life. You live in the moments between blinks.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. — Benjamin Disraeli

Problems are often life's way of letting you know that you're off course and need to take corrective action.

Your Circumstances Reflect What You've Been Thinking About

Why am I choosing to be with these people?" Consciously or unconsciously, you may be choosing to hold yourself back—to be less than you are capable of becoming. By the way, I think

Pride can easily cause us to nod our heads in agreement at God's Word and yet not allow it to gain traction in our hearts and minds. Complacency is one of the Christian's worst enemies.

The best person I know is Myself.

See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.

Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of the best people I know.

Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want.

Whenever you go with the cheaper option, you end up regretting it

See, that's the problem with putting too much stock in the old days. You remember all the GOOD stuff, but you forget about the time you got spanked by your best friend's mom.

I probably should've thought about talking to Uncle Gary a lot earlier. He's been married something like four times already, so he's an EXPERT on relationships.

But sometimes I wonder how much of my life is real and how much of it is rigged. Because half the things that happen to me are so ridiculous, I wonder if someone else is pulling the strings

I think it's important for me to keep my childhood friends so that later on someone can appreciate how far I've come.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

Life's too short for doubt, and yet too long for faith.

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.