Unobtrusive Quotes

Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some of the greatest works of art and the most important works of peace were created by people who had no need for the limelight. They knew that what they were doing was their call, and they did it with great patience, perseverance, and love.

I'm actually pretty reserved.

I'm one of those people who would be OK with fading back into the background a little bit.

... a modest man. He has every reason to be modest.

I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a quiet guy.

If I meet two guys at the same time and one of them is coming on really strong and talking a lot, and the other is more quiet and reserved, I'm going to like the second one. I want someone who isn't going to give it away in the first meeting.

I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.

I always was the quiet type, never said that much.

I'm so quiet if you don't know me.

The thing about simplicity is it's not easy to achieve. To many, simplicity can mean repetitiveness and maybe even a lack of intelligence, those kind of things, but simple yet unique is the key.

I'm a quiet person in real life.

I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved.

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

I've got a fairly low profile - I go and do me shopping when I need to!

I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

I think what people might not really know about me is that I'm really a shy individual.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

I'm low-key. I like my privacy.

I am reserved; I don't speak much.

I can literally walk around at our own shows, and nobody recognizes me.

I think of myself as a shy, modest, relatively unassuming person.

Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through it you can see all that is happening outside. That is the equivalent of writing that is plain and unadorned. Ideally, in reading such writing, you are not even aware that you are reading. Ideas and events seem merely to flow from the mind of the writer into that of the reader without any barrier between. I hope that is what is happening when you read this book

I've never really gone for the razzle-dazzle types: no quarterbacks, no flashy guys, and no Prince Charmings.