Best 481 quotes in «insightful quotes» category

Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.

German leftists have still not understood the degree to which Russian President Vladimir Putting has drifted to the right domestically. Now, insightful observers are saying that Putin is trying to create something like a reactionary Internationale. The turn toward homophobia and to clerics is completely ignored by leftists in Germany. Their sympathy for Putin comes largely from their antipathy for America. And this anti-Americanism is what binds them with the far-right.

Goals determine what you are going to be

Greed is permanent slavery

He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands

I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there is a large deal of detection in the short story.

If you're wanting me to besmirch somebody's reputation so that there would be some sort of division created out of it, I'm not going to do that ... If you're asking if I believe my opponent is a fake conservative, the answer to that question is yes, 100 percent.

I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.

I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I have made choices. Listen to me. I alone should suffer the consequences of those choices, no one else. And those consequences, they're coming. No more prolonging the inevitable.

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

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.

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

I didn't choose photography. Photography chose me.

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine. I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

If you leave yourself open to learning, then you can benefit and enjoy an incredibly rewarding and insightful experience. These experiences are the driving force in my life, and they keep me alive and inspire not only my music but also my everyday life.

If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.

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

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

I make it a policy every election to only debate once, Democrats and Progressives. And I will say that the way that you have acted, very candidly, has been dishonorable in this entire campaign.

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

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

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

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

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

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.

In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded.

In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space.

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

Interestingly, we have beaten the market quite handsomely over this time frame, although beating the market has never been our objective. Rather, we have consistently tried not to lose money and, in doing so, have not only protected on the downside but also outperformed on the upside.

In the 10 or so years since e-sourcing technology first made its way into grocers' procurement departments, the results secured have been remarkable: frequent double-digit savings in both direct and indirect categories, new process efficiencies, higher procurement contract compliance, dramatically lower savings leakage - and the list goes on.

It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.

It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in that same society.

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

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.

It's kind of funny. When I got my diagnosis - cancer - I said to myself, 'Why me?' And then, the other day, when I got the good news, I said the same thing.

It's magic. All of a sudden, the idea just pops up. Who knows how?

It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.

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.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.