Thought Provoking Quotes:

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

source: FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Feb 17, 2012

topic: Who I Am, Thought Provoking, Needs

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

source: Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.86, Heinemann

topic: Men, Thinking, Thought Provoking

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

topic: Men, Thought Provoking, Brave

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

topic: Thought Provoking

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

source: FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Dec 26, 2010

topic: Writing, Thought Provoking, Stories, Write Your Own

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

source: FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 21, 2015

topic: Reality, Years, Thought Provoking

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

topic: Doors, Thought Provoking, Worry, World Suffering, Stools

- Cornelia Funke

topic: Book, Reading, Thought Provoking, Library Books

Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.

- Dan Poynter

topic: Thought Provoking, Advice, Marketing

Don't ever miss a day without improving something personally.

- David D. Glass

topic: Thought Provoking, Missing, Provoking

Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing a seamless mix of personal anecdotes, hard evidence and all-too-often-underrated subjective admonitions, Bogle challenges each of us to aspire to become better members of our families, our professions and our communities.Â Rarely do so few pages provoke so much thought.Â Read this book.

- David F. Swensen

topic: Life Lesson, Book, Thought Provoking, Seamless, Admonition

Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them.

- David M. Brown

topic: America, Thought Provoking, Ambitious, Informative, Education In America

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

- Doris Lessing

topic: Book, Reading, Thought Provoking, Golden Notebook

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Thinking, Thought Provoking, Innovation, Nonconformity

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

topic: Thought Provoking, Stories, Love Story

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

topic: Thought Provoking, May, Matter

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

topic: Thought Provoking, Killers, Problem

Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.

topic: Eye, Men, Thought Provoking

Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.

topic: Jesus, Giving, Thought Provoking

Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

source: Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.48, David C Cook

topic: Thought Provoking, People, Want, Lukewarm, Coworker

A disciple is a disciple maker.

source: Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.382, David C Cook

topic: Fall, Thought Provoking, Study

As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking.

topic: Thought Provoking, Makers, Provoking

- Francis Fukuyama

topic: Kindness, Reality, Thought Provoking, Smelly

Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

- Gavin Newsom

source: Twitter post from Jul 07, 2016

topic: Thought Provoking, Trying, Limits, Trying New Things

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

- Germaine Greer

topic: Book, Reading, Thought Provoking, Library Books, Losing Your Virginity

Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.

- Ginni Rometty

topic: Dust, Data, Thought Provoking, Eighteen

A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

- H. Richard Niebuhr

topic: Wrath, Thought Provoking, Kingdoms

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

- Hans Kung

topic: Thought Provoking, Humanity, Lasts

Jim Rohn is one of the most articulate, powerful, thought-provoking speakers I've seen. His unique delivery and style puts him head and shoulders above the rest.

- Harvey Mackay

topic: Powerful, Unique, Thought Provoking, Powerful Thoughts

This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

- Henry Ford

topic: Motivational, Thought Provoking, Pay

If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words.

- Henry Mintzberg

topic: Motivational, Thought Provoking, Watches

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.73, Vintage

topic: Stupid, Philosophical, Thought Provoking, Fear And Loathing

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

- Isaiah Berlin

source: Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas”, p.2, Princeton University Press

topic: Thought Provoking, Curiosity, Wish

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.

topic: Jobs, Perfect, Thought Provoking, I May Not Be Perfect, Pursuit Of Perfection

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

topic: Thought Provoking, Important, Sometimes

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

source: "The Marriage of Love & Power". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Thought Provoking, Important, Spirit, Human Spirit

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

topic: Dream, Thought Provoking, World, Financial Resources

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

topic: Mean, Thought Provoking, Ordinary

The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

topic: People, Thought Provoking, Low Income

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

topic: Thought Provoking, Provoking, Solutions

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

topic: Thought Provoking, World, Continents, African Continent

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

topic: Opportunity, Broken, Thought Provoking

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

topic: Live Life, Thought Provoking, May, Immersion

We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.

topic: Thought Provoking, Being Real, Atrocities

The time for change is now.

topic: Thought Provoking, Planets, Connected

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

topic: Thought Provoking, Time For A Change, Provoking

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

topic: Thought Provoking, Trying, Cost

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

topic: Thought Provoking, Important, Cost

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

topic: Beautiful, Past, Thought Provoking, Promise Of The Future

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

topic: Dark, Thought Provoking, Sides, Dark Side

Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

topic: Thought Provoking, Provoking, Humans

Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.

topic: Thought Provoking, Planets, Provoking

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

topic: Lying, Thought Provoking, Infinite, Infinite Potential

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

topic: Thought Provoking, Events, This Generation

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

topic: Our World, Thought Provoking, Needs, Moral Leadership

Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

topic: Thought Provoking, Blind, Profit

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

topic: People, Thought Provoking, Dollars

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

topic: Thought Provoking, Way, Poverty, Goods And Services

All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.

topic: Thinking, People, Thought Provoking

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

topic: People, Thought Provoking, Provoking

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

topic: Thought Provoking, Charity, Poverty

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

topic: Thought Provoking, Want, Heard

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.

topic: People, Thought Provoking, Choices

Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.

source: "Is 'Patient Capitalism' The Answer To Poverty?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 18, 2013.

topic: Thought Provoking, Waiting, Listening

What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.

topic: Thinking, Thought Provoking, Harder

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

topic: Distance, People, Thought Provoking

People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

topic: Thought Provoking, Force, Provoking

Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.

topic: People, Thought Provoking, Decision, Handouts

It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.

topic: Thought Provoking, Saving, Want

We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans women, listening to their stories, enriches what womanhood is. It expands it and makes it even better.

topic: Thought Provoking, Together, World

- Janet Mock

topic: Inspiring, Thought Provoking, Listening, Mock, Trans

Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

- Jaroslav Pelikan

source: Jaroslav Pelikan, Valerie R. Hotchkiss, Patrick Henry (2005). “Orthodoxy & Western Culture: A Collection of Essays Honoring Jaroslav Pelikan on His Eightieth Birthday”, p.16, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

topic: Thought Provoking, Tradition, Provoking, Traditional

Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.

- Jason Reitman

topic: Writing, Thought Provoking, Way

Words are loaded pistols.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: Thought Provoking, Pistols, Existentialism, Loaded

Abdur Rab offers a comprehensive vision of Islam using the Quran as his sole religious textual source. He intentionally avoids the hadith literature, which he believes, and argues, has done much damage to the message of the Quran. His work provides many thought-provoking insights and should be a significant contribution to the 'Quran only' movement in modern Islam.

- Jeffrey Lang

topic: Religious, Believe, Thought Provoking, Hadith

Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's asÂ thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite.Â The Icon ThiefÂ is a wild ride through a fascinating and morally complexÂ world, a puzzle Duchamp himself would have applauded. Bravo.

- Jesse Kellerman

topic: Icons, Thought Provoking, Roaring, Wild Ride, Bravo

The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.

- Jhonen Vasquez

topic: Loneliness, Knowing, Thought Provoking, Waiting For Something, Numbing

Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The three wealthiest people on earth now control more assets than the combined incomes of 600 million people in the world's 48 poorest countries.

- Jim Wallis

topic: Country, Powerful, Thought Provoking

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

- Joan Bauer

topic: Reading, Book, Thought Provoking, Inspirational Office, Life Is Tough

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

- Jonas Salk

topic: Motivational, Dream, Thought Provoking

We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.

- Jonathan Sumption

topic: Book, Thought Provoking, Fundamentals, Erudite

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says. . . . When he finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand.

- Joyce Brothers

topic: Talking, Thought Provoking, Listening

I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

- Kim Harrison

topic: Reading, Thought Provoking, Plot

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

- Lady Bird Johnson

topic: Reading, Book, Thought Provoking, Library Books

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

- Larry Page

topic: Data, Thought Provoking, Sound, Data Science, Data Collection

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

- Lizz Winstead

source: "Lizz Winstead, Freely Speaking". Interview with Lianne Stokes, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

topic: Thought Provoking, Satire, Conversation

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

- Marc Jacobs

topic: Thought Provoking, Innovation, Process

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

- Martin Heidegger

source: "'Was heisst Denken?' ('What is Called Thinking?')". Book by Martin Heidegger, translated by Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray, 1968.

topic: Philosophical, Thinking, Thought Provoking

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

- Martin Luther

topic: Healing, Exercise, Thought Provoking

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

topic: Thought Provoking, Political, Germany, Political Ideology, Civil Rights Movement

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

topic: Character, Power, Thought Provoking, Moral Ethics, Good Kings

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

topic: Love, Thought Provoking, Violence, Non Violence, Non Violent

First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats - but was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then they arrested the trade unionists - and I did nothing because I was not one. And then they came for the Jews and then the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing. At last they came and arrested me - and there was no one left to do anything about it.

topic: Thought Provoking, Advice, Conservative

- Martin Niemoller

topic: Thought Provoking, Catholic, Lasts

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

- Martin Niemoller

topic: Thought Provoking, Long, Enemy

It's about time that we as Arabs take things into our own hands and figure out our own future, rather than [keep depending] on some outside force to do it for us... particularly when intervention by this outside force has not particularly been beneficial to the region in recent history.

- Marwan al-Muasher

topic: Hands, Thought Provoking, Force

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

- Max McKeown

source: Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.76, Pearson UK

topic: Thought Provoking, Provoking, Following

I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.

- Michelle Monaghan

topic: Thinking, Thought Provoking, Littles

If one can't be happy, one must be amused....

- Nancy Mitford

source: Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

topic: Motivational, Thought Provoking, Provoking

Libraries are our friends.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Book, Reading, Thought Provoking, Libraries And Librarians, Public Library

Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo,

- Nomi Prins

topic: Thought Provoking, Irreverence, Living My Life

In today's world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies on political and public apathy, Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.

- Nomi Prins

topic: Self, Hands, Thought Provoking, Today's World

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Birthday, Exercise, Thought Provoking, Age And Youth, Youth Funny

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Thought Provoking, World, Know Yourself, Feeling Stuck

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

- Patrick Ness

source: "Patrick Ness slams library cuts". www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

topic: Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

- Patrick Ness

topic: Book, Reading, Thought Provoking, Libraries And Librarians, Tour Guides

Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.

- Paul Scheuring

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Thought Provoking, Secret, Original Thought, Timely

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

- Paul Simon

topic: Talking, People, Thought Provoking, Sounds Of Silence, People Talking

The innovator's motto is this: I succeed or I learn but I never fail.

- Paul Sloane

topic: Thought Provoking, Succeed, Failing

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow.

- Paul Sloane

topic: Practice, Yesterday, Thought Provoking, Best Practices

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

- Plato

topic: Thought Provoking, House, Soul

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

- Pope Francis

topic: Thought Provoking, Decision, Waiting

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

- Pope Francis

topic: Doors, Thought Provoking, Church, New Roads

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

- Pythagoras

topic: Thought Provoking, Yes And No, Yes Or No, Power Of Words, Ancient Greek

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

- Queen Victoria

topic: Motivational, Thought Provoking, Provoking

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

topic: Thought Provoking, Needs, Interest

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

- Richard Powers

topic: Book, Reading, Thought Provoking, Libraries And Librarians, Library Books

Throughout history, people with new ideasâ€”who think differently and try to change thingsâ€”have always been called troublemakers.

- Richelle Mead

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Thought Provoking, Troublemaker

I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.

- Ricky Gervais

topic: Art, Thought Provoking, House, Blockbuster

To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

- Robert McAfee Brown

source: Robert McAfee Brown (1983). “Elie Wiesel, messenger to all humanity”

topic: Thought Provoking, Pay, Matter

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

- Sarah Vowell

topic: Mean, Ideas, Thought Provoking

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

- Seth Godin

topic: Thought Provoking, Innovation, Failure Is Not An Option

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

- Spike Lee

topic: Thought Provoking, People, Trying

intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.

- Stanley Schmidt

topic: Fun, Thought Provoking, Woven

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

- Stephen King

topic: Writing, Thought Provoking, Thesaurus

Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.

I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.

topic: Thought Provoking, Definitions, Be True To Yourself, Abusive Relationship, Rejects You

Saying no isn't easy, but it's a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you'll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.

topic: Two Sides, Thought Provoking, Coins, Accepting Others

If you don't make a conscious choice... someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective social influence, or someone or something else, but it won't be something of your deliberate choosing.

topic: Fall, Skills, Thought Provoking

Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says ... somebody ought to do something about that? Why not you? If you feel a strong urge to see a problem fixed, then why not act on it?

topic: Thought Provoking, Boss, Choices, Family Members

Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

topic: Strong, Thought Provoking, People

"Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds. They have choices."

topic: Thought Provoking, Desire, Want

Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you.

topic: Thought Provoking, People, Choices

Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.

topic: Mirrors, Thought Provoking, Feel Good, Stay True To Yourself

Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.

topic: Sacrifice, Thought Provoking, Choices

The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn't up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It's up to you and you alone.

topic: Meaningful, Goal, Thought Provoking

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.

topic: Past, Thought Provoking, Boss

Supporting customers through multiple channels is no longer an option for financial services organizations; it's a necessity.

topic: Thought Provoking, May, Want, Living Comfortably

- Sunny Singh

topic: Organization, Thought Provoking, Marketing, Financial Services

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Motivational, Thought Provoking, Humiliation

I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.

- Thomas Keller

topic: Believe, Inspiration, Thought Provoking, Rumination

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

- Voltaire

topic: Journey, Hiking, Thought Provoking, Journeys And Paths, Conformist

We can choose to make our love for each other what our lives are really about.

- Werner Erhard

topic: Motivational, Thought Provoking, Our Love

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

topic: Wisdom, Knowledge, Thought Provoking

topic: Thought Provoking, Evil, Passive

As a man is, so he sees.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

topic: Motivational, Men, Thought Provoking

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

topic: Inspirational, Artist, Thought Provoking, Restraining

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

topic: Artist, Differences, Thought Provoking

- William Mapother

topic: Thought Provoking, Stories, Sci Fi

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Thought Provoking, Vain, Power Of Words, Scarce, Lovers Meeting

There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring out what people really need or want but can't have or afford.

- Ziad K. Abdelnour

topic: Thought Provoking, People, Innovation

The world is one big data problem.

- Andrew McAfee

source: George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, Andrew McAfee (2014). “Leading Digital: Turning Technology Into Business Transformation”, p.5, Harvard Business Press

topic: Data, Thought Provoking, World

I think humor really is the most effective way for me personally to express myself. When I see an incredible formalist painting, I respect it. I really do. I see its history and I get it. But when I pass something weird or something funny, I totally associate with it. I find myself thinking about it later that day. That's how I know something is thought provoking. That's how I know something is effective.

- Chloe Wise

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Thinking, Thought Provoking, Painting

Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.

- David Mccandless

topic: Data, Oil, Thought Provoking, Data Science

I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.

- Judy Dater

topic: Wrinkles, People, Thought Provoking

For those interested in Reformed thought more broadly, I'd recommend Peter Leithart's recent book on Reformed Catholicism entitled, The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church (Brazos Press, 2016), as a thought-provoking and stimulating read that should get us all thinking about the future shape of the Church, wherever we come from.

- Oliver D. Crisp

topic: Book, Thinking, Thought Provoking, Thinking About The Future

Listening to the data is important... but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?

- Steve Lohr

topic: Math, Data, Thought Provoking

The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It's a responsibility to be shared by all.

- David Packard

topic: Jobs, Responsibility, Thought Provoking, Betterment

Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.

- Jamie Hyneman

source: Source: popculturezoo.com

topic: Fun, Thought Provoking, Attention

And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.130, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

topic: Years, Thought Provoking, Mind, Feeling Stuck

The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

- Soren Kierkegaard

topic: Track, Justice, Thought Provoking

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

- Lewis Mumford

source: "Faith for Living". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1940.

topic: Past, Thought Provoking, Focus

Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do. Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.

source: Francis Chan (2009). “Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit”, p.132, David C Cook

topic: Thought Provoking, Empowering, Spirit

I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.

source: "Francis Chan: Prayers Make Christians Different; Our God Listens". www.christianpost.com. February 2, 2011.

topic: Block, Thought Provoking, Answers, Listen To Me

Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.

source: "Francis Chan Takes On Hell". Relevant Interview, relevantmagazine.com. June 07, 2011.

topic: Thought Provoking, Salvation, Provoking

Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.

topic: Games, Thought Provoking, Video

I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.

topic: Believe, Heart, Thought Provoking

Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.

topic: Writing, Thought Provoking, Needs

It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.

source: Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.171, David C Cook

topic: Mean, Thought Provoking, Failing

If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.

topic: Thought Provoking, Lord, Provoking

Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.

topic: Thought Provoking, May, Scripts

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

source: Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.51, David C Cook

topic: People, Giving, Thought Provoking, Lukewarm

We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.

topic: Thought Provoking, Effort, Excellence, Moral Excellence