Insightful Quotes

Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient.

Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis...This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it hurts really bad. It can really mess with your head.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

First begin between selves, set a definite time, at each at that time put down what the other is doing. Do this 20 days. You shall find you have the key to telepathy.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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.

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

All for one; one for all.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

We need to ask ourselves a question: Do we trust God? Is he not the same yesterday, today, and forever? And if he is, then how is compromise a strategy? It's not a strategy, it's wholesale surrender.

The Dream Lover-what a bold, insightful, and enticing novel. And how vigorously Elizabeth Berg brings us the iconoclastic life of George Sand. Berg writes with such intimacy and compassion that I think she must have some shared ancestral DNA with Sand. I savored every page.

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

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

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

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

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.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

You've got to be very insightful about your brand, who you are, and what you mean to people. You've got to be able to inspire the whole organization behind that vision, so that every touch point the consumer experiences with the brand is reflective of that same brand promise.

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

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.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

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.

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

Cheer up beautiful people... this is where you get to make it right.

A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Suddenly I burst into song: 'Awe, sweet mystery of life, at last I found thee...' And I felt so good inside and my heart felt so full, I decided I would set time aside each day to do awe-robics. Because at the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Are you saying we shouldn't be prepared? And I'm asking you that right now, Daniel. ... Why would you be against people being able not only to be prepared to have food and water for their friends, but to defend themselves from looters and some of these degradation of society that happen in these crises?

I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for him. It was fun to be arrogant like he was and have the goods to back it up. He was a very noble character. Although, let's not forget, he did kill a lot of people.

Sometimes I feel like I never actually make any of my own. Choices, I mean. My entire life it just seems I never...you know, had a real say about any of it. Now this last one, cancer...all I have left is how I choose to approach this.'

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.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

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

A duplicitous country with a duplicitous leadership is going to give us more duplicity. And that duplicity is going lead us off an abyss. That's going to happen.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful about my books, often in 140 characters or less! It's a very casual, low-stakes, non-burdensome way of connecting that I think is fun for both the writer and the reader. And there are a lot of clever people out there who have no connection to publishing.