Quotes About Reflection

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

I might have skipped class, but I didn't miss any lessons.

Personally, I didn't take a single photograph while I was there, but that's not all that unusual for me. I suppose my aversion to snapping pictures may have something to do with shaky hands and blurry results, but there's another reason: The act of lifting up the camera and positioning it between me and the object of my interest separates me from the experience.

It seems to me that the quality of a moment in time is not always a reflection of the moment in and of itself—what happens before and what happens after are often what give it its savor.

When I visit the past now, it is for wisdom and experience, not for regret or shame.

This is why the license plates say Beautiful British Columbia, and I realized just how much I would miss it. But all this natural beauty exists only in response to rain, I reminded myself, and the occasional day of technicolor spectacle was bought and paid for with weeks and weeks of dull, damp gray. I wasn't going to miss the gray. If

We can all take something positive from the class of 2020; to accept what has happened in the past, to embrace the present, and to remain open to the probability that it will get better in the future.

Part of the disease's 'gift' is a certain stark clarity about the rest of your life.

The reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched and slightly stooped, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, "What are you smiling about?" but I already know the answer: "It just gets better from here".

The great physician, humanitarian and Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer explained, "The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live.

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old. — WILLIAM JAMES

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — NORMAN COUSINS

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful that God has implanted in the human soul. — JOHANN WOLFGANG

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON

releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison in which you're both the inmate and the jailer.

If you are mindful that old age has wisdom for its food you will so exert yourself in youth that your old age will not lack sustenance. — LEONARDO DA VINCI

survey—preparation and overview, or introduction • contextual analysis—consideration of the historical and literary contexts of the text • formal analysis—of the form, structure, and movement of the text • detailed analysis—of the various parts of the text • synthesis—of the text as a whole • reflection—on the text today • expansion and refinement—of the initial exegesis

G. K. Chesterton's comment is apt: "though St. John the Evangelist saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators."1 So also Luther's: "Some have even brewed it [Revelation] into many stupid things out of their own heads.

Through questions, leaders seek to learn not only what directly causes the problem or what solutions may work (which is single-loop learning), but also to seek to discover and learn what might be the underlying causes and solutions (double-loop learning) as well as the culture and mindset that create these causes and solutions (triple-loop learning).

Questions needed to be asked: What could happen if I did this? Is there any other way to think about this? What possibilities exist that I haven't thought of yet?

To overcome inertia, Peter Drucker, the legendary consultant, suggested asking the seemingly naïve question, "If we did not do this already, would we, knowing what we now know, go into it?"26

If moral reflection consists in seeking a fit between the judgments we make and the principles we affirm, how can such reflection lead us to justice, or moral truth?

cuanto más nos concebimos como seres hechos a sí mismos y autosuficientes, más difícil nos resulta aprender gratitud y humildad. Y, sin estos dos sentimientos, cuesta mucho preocuparse por el bien común.

autosuficientes, más difícil nos resulta aprender gratitud y humildad. Y, sin estos dos sentimientos, cuesta mucho preocuparse por el bien común.