Best 481 quotes in «insightful quotes» category

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

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

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

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

I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich.

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.

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.

Marian Head is a true student of Tao. Her insightful and persuasive 'Wu-Wei' approaches for personal transformation reach our hearts with open invitation to join the 'soft' revolution and harmonious agreement for all.

May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering.

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

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

My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big dramatic things that happen.

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

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

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.

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

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.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

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.

Protect the downside. Worry about the margin of safety.

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.

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.

Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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]

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

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

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.

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

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

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 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'.