Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer, Physician
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
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Obvious Things
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Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things."
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up."
George Ezra
Singer-Songwriter
"I guess it's kind of the obvious thing for me to do 'cuz it's what I grew up listening to. The songs growing up and everything kind of seem like old music to them, but to me, it's just... good music. And of course I did grow up in England in the 21st Century and that does come into it as well."
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"Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing."
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"And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody."
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"I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom."
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"But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were always cracking up how if you wrote the simplest, most obvious thing in the world people thought you were a genius."
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"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."
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"I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated."
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"[Albert Camus] also says that nothing is true which forces exclusion. From that, you're obliged to accept contradictions if you don't want to reject certain obvious things about life, certain evidences. If you create a system, and you say 'here there is truth', in that kind of pathway [chemin], then you'll evacuate all the other pathways and you'll kill life. It's up to each individual."
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"People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job."
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"I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice."
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