Obvious Quotes

Once you know the truth, it's always obvious

Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.

Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.

I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

Did evangelical Christians mistake Donald Trump's hairpiece for a halo, while ignoring the obvious signs that he worships Mammon?

I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

I am satisfied the way that I am playing. Is obvious that there is always things to improve.

Isn’t it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn’t. I did it so I’d have a reason to be around you — one I knew you couldn’t refuse.

One of the main things when you get notes from a studio is they don't want anyone to be confused ever, everything has got to be so obvious at all times unless it's a twist ending.

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan.

We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.

Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.

Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.

The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since 1970, the number of people behind bars... has increased 600 percent.

Success is a refined study of the obvious

At the moment we seem to be heading in the opposite direction. However you dress it up, it's pretty obvious who is being affected by the government's cuts.

The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

Determine where you are going and how you will get there will become obvious.

You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking. It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious.

Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.

Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.

It's pretty obvious, isn't it? I'm joining your crappy little renegade pack. The vampires' guard dogs.

Teaching children how to be eco-friendly at preschool age is just so obvious and so fantastic. It creates habits that they get into for a lifetime and then they put pressure on their parents.

It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.

Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have. Perhaps because we do have them, we don't see them. The obvious is often unseen.

We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.

You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed.