Insightful Quotes - Page 17

• Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we live and to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives.

  Frederic Flach

  Life, Years, People

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• Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.

  J. Willard Marriott

  Friendship, Make Or Break, Break

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• The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Money, Saving, Investing

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• Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

  Erik Erikson

  Life, Hope, Alive

  "Insight and Responsibility".

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• It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Differences, Ultimate Success

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

  Lee Iacocca

  Wise, Money, Waiting

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• How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Wise, Meaningful

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 15 June 2008

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• If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

  Lewis Hine

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

  Lewis Wickes Hine, Daile Kaplan (1992). “Photo story: selected letters and photographs of Lewis W. Hine”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Eye, Black And White

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Attitude, Freedom

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Tired, Ducks

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• I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

  Warren Buffett

  Success, Business, Reading

  "This Is Warren Buffett's Best Investment Advice" by Chris Winfield, time.com. July 23, 2015.

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• I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Lying, Inspiration

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.348, Discovery House

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• A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

  Jennifer Egan

  Girl, Years, Lunch

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.128, Anchor

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• I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

  O. Henry

  Writing, Giving, Secret

  O. Henry (1993). “Collected Stories of O. Henry”, Gramercy Books

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• We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Success, Self

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• Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Success, Night

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• Honesty is the best policy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.209, Regnery Publishing

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• Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all
  Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

  John Keats

  Beauty, Truth, Philosophy

  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 46 (1820)

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• As you've noticed people don't want to be sold. What people do want is news and information about the things they care about.

  Larry Weber

  People, Marketing, News

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• The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Witty, Humorous, Science

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• I would like to be able to admire a man's opinions as I would his dog - without being expected to take it home with me.

  Frank A. Clark

  Dog, Witty, Humorous

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• Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

  Bell Hooks

  Honesty, Foundation, Dialogue

  "Fools for love" by Bell Hooks, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2000.

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• It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It's difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work.

  Seth Godin

  Revenge, Moving, Anger

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• When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

  John W. Gardner

  Keys, Two, Judgement

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