Best 481 quotes in «insightful quotes» category

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know -- because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful.

Protect the downside. Worry about the margin of safety.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

Q: Does this train stop at Brighton? A: I hope so or there's going to be a hell of a splash.

Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.

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.

Sellers who've embraced social media are creating new opportunities that totally bypass traditional sales channels... It's about good selling - using all the tools that are available to you today.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

Sheriff Knezovich's bill was poorly-written and not constitutional, according to many attorneys, including myself, that reviewed it. We want to go forward with something that's going to stand up to the scrutiny that all bills go under once they've been passed into law.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

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.

S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT, enrich his perspectives about the way universities work, and his exploration of the culture of MIT is brilliant.

Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

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

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]

That's insightful, but equally insightful is what they say afterwards. The other thing that I always point out is it's one thing to talk to the candidate. It's quite another to talk to the staff, and that's when you find out what's really going on.

The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation.

Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.

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

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.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

The game isn't over till it's over.

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

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

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

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

The law, in this country, is dead. The Supreme Court doesn't follow the Constitution, Congress doesn't follow the Constitution. The President doesn't even want to follow the Constitution. And yet we're the ones called radical.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

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 merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

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

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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