Insightful famous quotes
07-17-2025
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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.
-- A. Powell Davies -
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
-- A.J. Ayer -
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.
-- Aaron Ross -
You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.
-- Albert Einstein -
Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.
-- Annie Proulx -
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
-- Bell Hooks -
You must lose everything in order to gain anything.
-- Brad Pitt -
I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.
-- Brian D. McLaren -
The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more impressive - nearly every e-auction delivered cost savings.
-- Brian Miller -
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'
-- Brian Tracy -
The reasons why executives are scared of social selling are well documented. That being said, there are some hugely successful global business leaders using social selling tactics incredibly well - some of which even admit they could not operate without it!
-- Bruce Rasmussen -
Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.
-- Cal Ripken, Jr. -
Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history. Anyone captivated by the issues and controversies surrounding the preservation and development of the nation's natural heritage should read this engaging, carefully researched biography.
-- Carolyn Merchant -
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
-- Charles Darwin -
Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
-- Charlie Munger -
The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.
-- Charlie Munger -
If you want to enjoy life more fully, the trick is to teach yourself to live in the insightful mode more often.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.
-- Chuck Norris -
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.
-- Chungliang Al Huang -
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.
-- Dale Dauten -
Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.
-- Dave Ramsey -
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.
-- David Duchovny -
Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.
-- David George -
The mantra should change from 'Always Be Closing' to 'Always to helping'.
-- David Hahn -
What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
-- David Ogilvy -
I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.
-- David Sedaris -
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
-- David Sedaris -
PLEASE don't ever think that you can't get out of the rut you may be in or think you can't take your life to a whole new level.. Anything is possible when you have a path, a plan and a desire to take action..
-- Dean Graziosi -
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
-- Edmund Burke -
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.
-- Emma Donoghue -
The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.
-- Ernest Rutherford -
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily.
-- G. I. Gurdjieff -
The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
-- George Orwell -
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
-- George Santayana -
World Screen provides clear, insightful reporting on the most critical and complex issues of our industry. It combines local savvy with a global perspective, and it is an important source of information.
-- Gustavo Cisneros -
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
-- Haruki Murakami -
Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.
-- Henry Ford -
It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.
-- Homer -
I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end...
-- Ishmael Beah -
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.
-- Isobelle Carmody -
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
-- J. Paul Getty -
Great vision without great people is irrelevant.
-- James C. Collins -
It's magic. All of a sudden, the idea just pops up. Who knows how?
-- James Westphal -
The costs savings was a big win, but now we also have a schedule of events and are clearly aware of when our contracts begin and end...we are much more strategic about how we source now.
-- Jason Kennedy -
If people throw rocks at you, collect them and build something...
-- Jim Garrett -
Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.
-- Jim Talent -
Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I've been around. He's fresh, he's new, he's insightful.
-- Joe Biden -
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
-- John Adams -
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.
-- John Lescroart -
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
Pop Salvation is a genius take on discovering who you are by becoming what you most admire. If I didn’t know better, I’d think Lance Reynald watched me grow up. Marvelously endearing and insightful.
-- Josh Kilmer-Purcell -
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.
-- Karen Russell -
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
-- Katharine Whitehorn -
Q: Does this train stop at Brighton? A: I hope so or there's going to be a hell of a splash.
-- Kenny Everett -
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!
-- Larry Niven -
You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.
-- Larry Winget -
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.
-- Laura Kightlinger -
I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
-- Lee Iacocca -
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
-- Leonard Nimoy -
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.
-- Liz Phair -
A masterfully written text for the M&A student and professional: clear, concise, comprehensive, practical, and insightful.
-- Lloyd Levitin -
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.
-- Maira Kalman -
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
-- Malcolm Forbes -
Looking at scenes of nature, for even a short while, can help us become more insightful, more creative, and more productive.
-- Maria Konnikova -
It's more than just selling pizzas. It's being a good fit for the community. We hire based on the betterment of the community as much as anything.
-- Mark Starr -
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.
-- Matt Shea -
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.
-- Matt Shea -
We had a majority in 1990, 1994, 1996, we lost it every time. You know why? Because we compromised... We don't need a majority. We need an irate, tireless minority. We need people who are just going to stand for the truth.
-- Matt Shea -
We've got some Democrats who are actually Tea Partiers right now. We need to build coalitions with them.
-- Matt Shea -
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.
-- Matt Shea -
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.
-- Matt Shea -
The easy road in Olympia is a yes vote. That's the easy road in Olympia. The easy road in Olympia is not carrying the banner for freedom and liberty. The easy road in Olympia is worrying about getting reelected. The easy road in Olympia is going along to get along.
-- Matt Shea -
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.
-- Matt Shea -
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.
-- Matt Shea -
We need to prepare for the inevitable collapse that's going to happen. Yes, I say that as a politician on stage. It's going to happen. We should look it at as an opportunity, not as something to be afraid of.
-- Matt Shea -
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.
-- Matt Shea -
The ability to defend yourself is a basic necessity like food and water. We exempt food and water from the sales tax.
-- Matt Shea -
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
-- Mencius -
Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
-- Morgan Freeman -
Each person is the universe from a particular perspective.
-- Morihei Ueshiba -
A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative genre, the authors hope to generate different insights into the world of genomics and biotechnology than ones generally presented in existing accounts. They succeed at that goal, providing an account that is ethnographically rich and analytically open to a world whose structure, implications, and outcomes are very much in the making.
-- Nadia Abu El Haj -
It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.
-- Nancy Astor -
It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.
-- Neal A. Maxwell -
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.
-- Neil Gaiman -
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
