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The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.
It's the easiest thing in the world to assume that what seems so obvious at one moment in time is a hard, perpetual fact of life.
Obamacare's terrifyingly cumbersome, competition-hostile apparatus for controlling medical costs is one of its most obvious flaws.
Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious.
To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.
Sometimes I don't even deliberate. I just decide from the bench, it's so obvious. The beautiful part is that I have carte blanche.
But the focus for actors is always towards acting. It is very obvious that they don't need to have training in professional music.
I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.
Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.
The need to challenge the status quo is just more obvious when you're failing than when you're succeeding. But it's no less urgent.
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
When you change teams, cities or countries it's obvious there's a period of adaption, but some players can adapt quicker than others.
The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.
I really kill myself on titles, although 'The 5th Wave' seems like an obvious title, doesn't it? You don't know how long that took me.
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
You want everybody to like your work, but when you look at what's fashionable or trendy, it's pretty obvious that I don't exactly fit.
My well-known aesthetic sense, which is so obvious and personal, spontaneously spurs me to challenge myself with different disciplines.
Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
I'm just done downplaying how much I love Radiohead and how massive of an influence they are on what I do, because it's pretty obvious.
I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.
It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink.
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.
Most of the time, I leave the camera on the obvious special effects, like the rubber bodies, so that it become obvious they're not real.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
I think I'm a focal point for everyone. It's obvious that all the fans are watching every move that I make, and so why wouldn't the refs?
I'm happy that I worked alone on 'Tragedy,' but it's obvious that I was trying to create something much bigger than I could do on my own.
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
The motivations for using drugs, often it's pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.
Like Diogenes, when millennials went on their pursuit to find the one honest man in politics, it was obvious that man was Bernie Sanders.
It's easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It's much more difficult when there is no compelling reason.
Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.
One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't be able to smile so much.
That I am not my experiences is very obvious. I am the one who is having those experiences. Spirituality has nothing to do with experience.
I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.
If you state the obvious long enough, other people will pick up on what you're talking about and examine it. And usually they'll swallow it.
Ummm... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not.
I create doubt in the reader's mind. That is what literature is for: to provoke, to raise doubts, to talk about things that are not obvious.
'Ratboy' is an offbeat film with a lot of comments to make about human values. But, because it's offbeat, it doesn't have an obvious market.