Obvious Quotes

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.

Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.

I don't know if it is obvious, but I am extremely shy.

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

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren't so obvious. They like things that have cachet and gentlemanliness.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country

All the world Loves You, but You are nowhere to be found, Hidden and yet . . . completely obvious!

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.

I dress sexily - but not in an obvious way. Sexy in a virginal way

It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.

You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.

Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

Set your goals-without goals you cannot measure your progress. But don’t become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving can be more important than arriving.