Best 481 quotes in «insightful quotes» category

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.

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.

There's no need to inundate the world with books and language. It's just too full already. There's so much rubbish hiding in the world. But as long as I think I can do something inventive and insightful, then I'll keep doing it.

The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

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

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.

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.

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame.

Three Mormon scholars have thoroughly researched one of the most shameful events in Mormon history. They have produced a very detailed, insightful and balanced account of the events leading to the Mountain Meadow Massacre of 9/11, 1857.

Vanity prevents improvement

Value investing is risk aversion.

We need to ask ourselves a question: Do we trust God? Is he not the same yesterday, today, and forever? And if he is, then how is compromise a strategy? It's not a strategy, it's wholesale surrender.

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

We had pastors testifying in favor of gun control. And they were quoting the Bible, too, for it. And there were no pastors on the other side testifying against gun control... I had to literally open up my Bible and read scripture to these pastors in a hearing in Olympia. A politician had to read scripture to pastors.

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 don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.

We have to deal with a lot of things. One of them is we have to deal with fake conservatives that are bought-and-paid for by the Karl Rove establishment. Unfortunately, some in my area have recruited a primary opponent against me.

We need to call what is happening out of Washington, D.C., what it is: Bureaucratic terrorism: If you want a list of stories, I could go through a bunch of them, and I could highlight a few: One of them was the IRS audit of my good friend Phil Hart, he's sitting in the audience today. That was bureaucratic terrorism.

We need to understand that being an accomplice or accessory to those who seek to enslave our posterity, is no better than being the folks that are locking the chains themselves.

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 work really hard never to get confused with what we know from what we think or hope or wish.

We've got some Democrats who are actually Tea Partiers right now. We need to build coalitions with them.

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

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

When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.

When did you get all insightful?" he asked. "I have no idea," Josh admitted. "I don't like it." "Me, either. Makes me feel like a girl. Don't tell anyone." (Ethan and Josh)

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

Where there is no vision a people perish.

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

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

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

You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.

You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

After having grown up surrounded by so much manufactured beauty, Amara had come to want something different. Something that wasn't necessarily beautiful. Something imperfect, interesting, and perhaps even ugly.

Zhuangzi is especially insightful about the human pretension to know. The Zhuangzi tells a story about a frog who lives in caved-in well. Because he is the lord of this little world of his, king of the pollywogs, he is very proud of himself. But he doesn't know how small his world is until a turtle comes and tells him about the vastness of the sea. We human beings are like the frog, not realizing how little our worlds are.

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

A diamond is just a rock. A really expensive rock.

Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'!

A final dirty joke. Another human punch line

A fundamental truth, is that there is simply no such thing as an inherently boring person or thing. People are only in danger of coming across as such when they either fail to understand their deeper selves or don’t dare or know how to communicate them to others.

A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them

A man enjoys the pleasure he feels, a woman the pleasure she bestows.

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.