Quotes About Reflection

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.

When you grow up without a brother or sister, you tend to see things just through your own eyes. You have friends and everything, but you spend most of your time watching TV or sat in a room making decisions about your life on your own.

I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'

Every day, I tell myself, 'It will be better if I spend more time on thinking about good ideas and working instead of watching TV or shopping.'

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

I will do water - beautiful, blue water.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself.

Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.

Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water.

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

The teapot takes in water and gives out tea. So the human individual takes in anything you give him and promptly transforms it; he is ready to give you out again his own reactions - first, in thought and emotion, then in voice or action.