Pastoral Resources

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.