Insightful Quotations

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

My trademark at CNN was really asking insightful questions and making sure people are understanding the connections in humanity, and I think that is the core of education.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

I'm a compulsive note-taker, and I used to feel self-conscious about pulling out my little notebook and taking notes during a casual conversation. Then I noticed that people really seemed to enjoy it; the fact that I was taking notes made their remarks seem particularly insightful or valuable. Now I don't hold myself back.

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

Most of what you will create is for your enrichment or is a stepping stone to other better, more insightful work. Maybe once or twice in a lifetime you will be recognized with the kudos of the public, so in the meantime, create for yourself.

Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

Joel Klein has taken antitrust enforcement to a new and higher level of intellectual rigor and forceful advocacy and protection of the public, ... He's been more proactive and consumer minded than many other antitrust enforcers. Joel is a hands-on enforcer who is enormously energetic and supportive of his staff, inspires tremendous loyalty, and has very insightful judgment.

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more impressive - nearly every e-auction delivered cost savings.

The reasons why executives are scared of social selling are well documented. That being said, there are some hugely successful global business leaders using social selling tactics incredibly well - some of which even admit they could not operate without it!

First begin between selves, set a definite time, at each at that time put down what the other is doing. Do this 20 days. You shall find you have the key to telepathy.

Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter.

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

If you can predict the rate at which you create (or create and grow) qualified pipeline, and you know your average close rate(s), then you can start predicting your revenue.

To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

Vanity prevents improvement

Greed is permanent slavery

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands

Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.

The mantra should change from 'Always Be Closing' to 'Always to helping'.

Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.

The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good investments and that you wanted to be in good investments, and therefore, you'd just find a few of them that you knew a lot about and concentrate on those seemed to me such an obviously good idea. And indeed, it's proven to be an obviously good idea. Yet 98% of the investing world doesn't follow it. That's been good for us.

We have a passion for keeping things simple.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

If you want to enjoy life more fully, the trick is to teach yourself to live in the insightful mode more often.

Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.

While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius, the insightful individual or just the old grandmother may reasonably declare the world to be mad? Probably, but what hope or happiness would such an individual have?

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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

This is not a quickie, exploitation book attempting to capitalize on the worldwide publicity ultimately generated by Terri's story, ... This is the powerful, insightful and definitive story, told by a dedicated and hard-working journalist who made it her business, after nearly three years of covering this life-and-death conflict, to bring it to the attention of the national and international media.

They definitely get very eloquent sometimes. I'm always so amazed at how insightful they are.

I have the utmost faith in his abilities. I'm a huge fan. His show is never not insightful and funny.

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.

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Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.

Each person is the universe from a particular perspective.

The thing that amazes me about getting fired is that nobody ever has anything insightful to say about it. They always say the same thing. They always say, 'Everything happens for a reason.' As lame as that sounds, I guess it’s better to hear it out loud. Because when you hear it in your own head, it sounds like, 'Anything can happen with a razor.

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.

It may sound ridiculous being just 23 but I've a few good stories I'd like to share. I'm hoping the book will be honest, funny, insightful and, above all, life-affirming.

I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end...

It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

Ignorance is not an extension of time

Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.

It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.