Insightful Quotes - Page 15

• Vanity prevents improvement

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Vanity, Improvement, Selling

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• ...all knowledge exists in the Mind universe of Light - which is God - that all Mind is One Mind, that men do not have separate minds, and that all knowledge can be obtained from the Universal Source of All-Knowledge by becoming One with that Source.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Light, Becoming One

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• 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

  Effort, Trying, Rational

  In Observer 17 Aug. 1986

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• Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

  Germaine Greer

  Brain, Humans, Washing

  The Times 1 Feb. 1986

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• 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

  Perfect, Would Be, Delight

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• 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.

  Lily Tomlin

  Song, Sweet, Heart

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• Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Meaning Of Life, Logic

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• When one doors closes, another door opens.

  Helen Keller

  Doors

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• 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.

  Edgar Cayce

  Keys, Self, Firsts

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

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Thinking, Balls

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• In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

  Annie Proulx

  House, Story Writers, Novelists

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• I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who try to start off with a novel right off, or a trilogy, or even a nine-book series. That's like starting in at rock climbing by tackling Mt. Everest. Short stories help you learn your craft.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Rocks, Climbing

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• A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.

  Eudora Welty

  Character, Trying, Suggestions

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• If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. The formula seems to lie solely in the aching urge of the writer to convey something he feels important to the reader. If the writer has that urge, he may sometimes but by no means always find the way to do it.

  John Steinbeck

  Lying, Writing, Mean

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• 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

  Stories, Sides, Short Story

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• The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.

  Charlie Munger

  Winning, Games, Investing

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• In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices. Your goal as an investor should simply be to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily-understandable business who's earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher five, ten and twenty years from now.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Two, Views

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.160, John Wiley & Sons

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• We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good investments and that you wanted to be in good investments, and therefore, you'd just find a few of them that you knew a lot about and concentrate on those seemed to me such an obviously good idea. And indeed, it's proven to be an obviously good idea. Yet 98% of the investing world doesn't follow it. That's been good for us.

  Charlie Munger

  Believe, Ideas, Investing

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

  Chuck Norris

  Inspirational, Success, Happened

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• 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.

  Stuart Wilde

  Inspirational, Success, Games

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• 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

  Inspirational, Success, Thinking

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

  Robert G. Allen

  Inspirational, Success, Powerful

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

  Robert G. Allen

  Inspirational, Success, Choices

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• Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.

  David George

  Inspirational, Success, Effort

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• 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.

  Robert G. Allen

  Inspirational, Success, Fundamentals

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