Insightful Quotations | Page 2

Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.

Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.

I don't really care if they like me or not.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.

Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.

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.

First, never go against the best light you have; second, take care that your light be not darkness.

Rich Christiansen is one of the most insightful, practical and cost-conscious entrepreneurs in the world today. Listen to Rich. He won't steer you wrong.

It must be hard being you,” she said. “Mr. Perfect on the outside. Dr. Evil on the inside.” “It’s not that hard. The rest of the world isn’t as insightful as you.

Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.

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.

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.

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]

When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.

Dogs are my favorite people.

When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire?

Money is attracted to great ideas.

Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.

The more clarity you have, the more powerful your goals are.

The decisions that you make each day can actually catapult you to that next level of achievement.

Your life~the way it looks today is a result of your choices...What will you choose today for your tomorrows?

The fundamental level of success is doing the hard things first - If you go for the feared thing first, then the rest of the day is easy.

Words transform. Speak only with a good purpose. Say only things that serve you and others. Choose your words wisely.

the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die

It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.

I'm not leaving until you say yes.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

You know I, I just think, that ah, things have a way of working themselves out.

Name one thing in this world that is not negotiable.

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.

Chemistry is, well technically, chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change.

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.

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 thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things; first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

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?'

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear.

You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.

Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.

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

When one doors closes, another door opens.

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.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

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

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

You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.

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

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

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.

We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.

You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.