We quickly erase hoaxes once exposed, excising the monstrous palimpsest, because as with any witch hunt or obvious fake, afterward we can't quite explain why we ever believed the outrageous thing in the first place.
The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one.
To me, it's obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It's been obvious to me since very early in life. I don't know why it's not obvious to very many other people.
The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.
The obvious choice isn't always the best choice, but sometimes, by golly, it is. I don't stop looking as soon I find an obvious answer, but if I go on looking, and the obvious-seeming answer still seems obvious, I don't feel guilty about keeping it.
Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.
The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.
I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.
From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are not women. It's the sort of thing to me that's obvious, so I start from that obvious premise.
Once you know the truth, it's always obvious
A lot of the things I do are obvious things that for some reason are not done. I could never figure this out. Why don't people do the obvious?
Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.
People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.
Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.