These tip of the iceberg quotes will inspire you. Tip of the iceberg is a small part of something (such as a problem) that is seen or known about when there is a much larger part that is not seen or known about.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging tip of the iceberg quotes, tip of the iceberg sayings, and tip of the iceberg proverbs.
Best Tip Of The Iceberg Quotes
- “What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know” ~ Jim Rohn
- “What we do and accomplish is only the tip of the iceberg of what’s possible for us.” ~ Les Brown
- “I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.” ~ Sebastiao Salgado
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“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.” ~ Sigmund Freud
- “Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I’m sure of this; I’ve always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically, is just the tip of the iceberg as well.” ~ Yo-Yo Ma
- “In real life, when you have an emotional experience, it’s never just because of the thing that’s been said. There’s the backstory. It’s like [Ernest] Hemingway’s iceberg theory – the current emotional moment is the tip of the iceberg and all of the past is the seven-eighths of the iceberg that’s underwater.” ~ George Saunders
- “What I’m doing on stage now is just the tip of the iceberg.” ~ Reggie Watts
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“The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.” ~ Bob Woodward
- “I smiled at him, as Doyle squeezed my hand and I squeezed back. “Some people are addicted to falling in love, Doctor. Some people love that rush of new emotions, and when that first rush of new love is spent, they move on to the next, thinking the love wasn’t real. What I felt in her, and potentially in you, is the love of years. Love that knows that that first rush of freshness isn’t the real thing. It’s the tip of the iceberg.” ~ Laurell K. Hamilton
- “What’s in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.” ~ Natasha Richardson
- “I’m fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at science and technology because I think that the developments in my lifetime have been so remarkable – and we’re only at the tip of the iceberg with projects like decoding the human genome.” ~ Nick Rhodes
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“The digital and physical worlds are starting to come together more seamlessly – it’s only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what’s coming.” ~ Mark Parker
- “The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tire and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That’s your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg.” ~ Timothy Olyphant
- “If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
- “Adopting the behaviors and habits of surrendered people helps us improve our relationships, feel love and gratitude, get healthier, give up destructive people and behavior patterns, and become more successful and influential in our lives and careers. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg as far as benefits go.” ~ Judith Orloff
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“Private prison companies are now listed on the New York Stock exchange and are doing quite well in a time of economic recession (and depression in some communities). But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.” ~ Michelle Alexander
- “What we learned in there is significantly more than what is out in the media today. I can’t speak to what we learned in there, and I don’t know if there are other leaks, if there is more information somewhere if somebody else is going to step up, but I will tell you that I believe it’s just the tip of the iceberg.” ~ Loretta Sanchez
- “The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change.” ~ Michelene Wandor
- “Twenty-eight years ago, I created my first game on an Apple II in my bedroom closet at a time when the interactive entertainment industry was taking its first baby steps. Today the games business has grown to a multi-billion dollar industry and we are just at the tip of the iceberg. I’m thrilled to have been a part of this successful journey and I’m extremely honored by the Academy’s Hall of Fame induction.” ~ Richard Garriott
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“Despite its widespread acceptance and the number of lives it has improved, what most of us in the West commonly associate with yoga represents only the tip of the iceberg that is yoga, a tiny fraction of what is a vast and profound science.” ~ Rod Stryker
- “The Fed cannot reduce inequality on its own; far from it. This requires a concerted effort by the government, broadly speaking, to support a variety of efforts. These include things like raising the federal minimum wage, eliminating unfair restrictions on union organizing, increased fiscal spending on needed infrastructure with a condition that these jobs will be decent-paying jobs. Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and far from the question of the role of the Federal Reserve.” ~ Gerald Epstein
- “In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it’s trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.” ~ Mark Nepo
- “Power is no more than a part, no more than the tip of the iceberg of limitless profundity and sublimate of Karate.” ~ Mas Oyama
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“Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.” ~ Jodi Picoult
- “Gradually the awful truth dawns on you: that Santa Claus was just the tip of the iceberg – that your future will not be the rollercoaster ride you’d imagined, that the world occupied by your parents, the world of washing the dishes, going to the dentist, weekend trips to the DIY superstore to buy floor tiles, is actually largely what people mean when they speak of ‘life’.” ~ Paul Murray
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“Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.” ~ Siobhan Dowd
- “In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the ‘imaginary’ level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.” ~ Terry Eagleton
- “I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don’t necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don’t necessarily have access to.” ~ Alan Ball
