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Superficial goals lead to superficial results
Attila the Hun
Shallow objectives breed unimportant outcomes.
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As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.
Judith Wright
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No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.
James Madison
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If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.
Shulamith Firestone
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I have no Facebook page or Twitter - I don't participate in it, and I don't like it particularly. I mean, it's a form of interaction, which strikes me as extremely superficial.
Noam Chomsky
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I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.
Leonard Ravenhill
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Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.
Eric Ries
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The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.
William Rehnquist
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You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.
Annie Lennox
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Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.
Martin Amis
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It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.
Edith Hamilton
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There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial
Donna Tartt
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Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
P. D. James
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How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.
Pope Francis
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To line only for some unknown future is superficial.
Abdul Kalam
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but superficiality is characteristic of youth. In my late teens I became enamored of Nietzsche, Bataille, and Artaud.
Ray Brassier
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I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.
Brigitte Bardot
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Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
P. D. James
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Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.
Christopher Nolan
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone
Jorge Luis Borges
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I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.
Stanislav Grof
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A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.
Eckhart Tolle
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I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.
Miuccia Prada
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Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
Louise Imogen Guiney
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I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?
Courteney Cox
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If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
Larry Brilliant
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When you do an album about Africa, you can't be too superficial.
Damian Marley
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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
Hans Hofmann
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How we look - though it is superficial and immutable - has a huge impact on our lives.
Cameron Russell
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Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress.
Ishmael Butler
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It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.
Mackenzie Davis
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Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial.
Kedar Joshi
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The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.
Charles Spurgeon
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To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.
Heather Mills
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Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.
Thomas Merton
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Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Lazy and superficial men and women do not produce superior work.
David Ogilvy
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Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind.
Andy Cohen
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Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.
Johnny Depp
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Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you quickly find that you get more friends than you know what to do with.
Pico Iyer
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I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.
Colin Quinn