Insightful Quotes - Page 11

• It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond.

  Susane Colasanti

  Distance, Looks, Answers

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.162, Penguin

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• 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

  Interesting, Agendas, Conservative

  "Romney Fires Back At Gingrich". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 8, 2011.

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• I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Leadership, Wise, People

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• A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone needs help making sense of the incredible variety of sounds that have sprung up in the wake of the Internet revolution. There's a lot of room for unique, qualified voices who can provide good reads.

  Michael Azerrad

  Unique, Sprung Up, Voice

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• 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.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Movie, Film History, Wonderful

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• The future is created at the intersection of business, technology, design, and culture. *In the Bubble* is an insightful and delightful explanation of this nexus and of how each force affects the others. Designers often miss a great deal in their educations about the real people who will use and inhabit their work. Thackara astutely illuminates a lot of what designers don't know they're missing.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Real, Technology, People

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• When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wise, Bonus, Feels Right

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 15 June 2008

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• Mike Myatt’s ‘Hacking Leadership’ is a must read… Mike combines insightful yet practical commentary with in the trenches leadership experience few can match. I would highly recommend this text to anyone looking to become a better leader.

  Vijay Govindarajan

  Leader, Hacking, Trenches

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• 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

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Sound, Lame

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• When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like,'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

  Reed Hastings

  Memories, Smart, Thinking

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• Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

  Voltaire

  Friendship, Valentines Day, Divorce

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.954, e-artnow

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

  Saul Williams

  Past, Waiting, Born

  Saul Williams (2009). “, said the shotgun to the head.”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Meaningful, Religious, Truth

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• 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

  Writing, Stories, Stuff

  David Sedaris (2010). “Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Life, Success, Money

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Roseanne Barr

  Divorce, Way, Lasts

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• 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

  Party, Republican, Democratic

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• Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Funny, Jobs, Work

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• I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Thinking, Investing

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• Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Investing Money

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.150, John Wiley & Sons

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• Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!

  Anne Frank

  Pain, War, Hero

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.186, Bantam

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• You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Basketball, Motivational Sports

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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• If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

  Zig Ziglar

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  "The Power of Respect : Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success" by Deborah Norville, (p. 65), 2009.

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• And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Philosophical, Giving

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.25, Enhanced Media Publishing

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