It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! We’re not even scratching the surface of what we’re capable of. We are all blessed with a continent of unexplored gifts and talents. Use them, or lose them!
Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?
A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.
No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.
Let's let everything come to the surface, even with people we come in contact with for a moment. This situation can help us be a little bit more awake with each other.
Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.
I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.
Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.
Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.
In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.
Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
A painted surface is a real, living form.
The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.
The things I felt. . . about certain painters of the past that. . . inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet. . . that complete losing of oneself in the work to such an extent that the work itself. . . felt as if a living organism was posited there on the canvas, on this surface. . . That's truly. . . the act of creation.
There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.
Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.
[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.
Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.