Insightful Quotes - Page 21

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

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Affair, Should

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• My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.

  Kevin Smith

  Father, Real, Long

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• I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Cynical, Enough

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wise, Gratitude, Greatest Treasure

  "The Oprah Winfrey Show Finale". www.oprah.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Improvement, Remember

  Norman Vincent Peale (1975). “Positive Thinking for a Time Like this”

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• A Path Appears is an insightful book focused on how individuals can contribute to positive change and the remarkable people behind the organizations that make it happen. The authors' desire to motivate people to support good causes, learn about the situation in other countries, and find the best way to help their fellow men and women is inspiring.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Book, Men

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• Roy Blount, who is the funniest person I know, journeys deep into the dark heart of humor and brings back a wonderfully insightful, superbly crafted song of the soul that had me laughing and crying too

  Dave Barry

  Song, Heart, Dark

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• Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more malls than high schools; Americans spend more time shopping than reading. ... Some of the most insightful writing about the American character over the nation's history has been about neither freedom nor democracy but about the crazed impulse to acquire things.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Writing, School

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.184, Random House

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• Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving and hugely insightful. Darren Groth puts the reader into the heads of Perry and Justine in a way that feels so true and so revealing that I think I've come away with a greater capacity for empathy. I didn't know a book could do that. We all need to spend some time inside this story.

  Nick Earls

  Book, Moving, Heart

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• Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter.

  David Duchovny

  Interviews, Encounters, Inspired

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• The Sketchnote Handbook is neither about sketching nor is it about note taking. It's about receiving and processing the world in a more complete and insightful way. It's a software upgrade for your brain. For those who've been shamed into thinking that drawing is either beyond them or beneath them, this book offers a whole new way of mastering the daily onslaught of information and turning it into raw material for discovery. (For those of us who've done this all our lives, the book provides a beautifully conceived and lovingly illustrated treat, and a great gift for our left-brained friends.)

  Stefan G. Bucher

  Book, Thinking, Drawing

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• Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Daughter, Mother, Heart

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• 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.

  Maira Kalman

  Smart, Profound, Rooms

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• Looking at scenes of nature, for even a short while, can help us become more insightful, more creative, and more productive.

  Maria Konnikova

  Nature, Creative, Helping

  Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books

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• I do think people need to recognize that a lot of journalists want to write a story a certain way because the story will be better or the portrayal will be better, or at least recognize that whenever you're looking at something, you're seeing it through somebody's eyes who may actually not be the person who is the most insightful.

  Ray Dalio

  Writing, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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

  Morgan Freeman

  Writing, Winning, Internet

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• 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.

  Stewart Udall

  Two, Risk, Age

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• I didn't choose photography. Photography chose me.

  Gerardo Suter

  Photography, Photograph, Inspirational Photography

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• We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Science

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.359, Princeton University Press

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• Dogs are my favorite people.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Dog, People, Pet

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

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• For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• 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.

  Yanni

  Inspire, Everyday, Benefits

  "Yanni: A Global Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big dramatic things that happen.

  Jim Jarmusch

  People, Littles, Film

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• Zhuangzi is especially insightful about the human pretension to know. The Zhuangzi tells a story about a frog who lives in caved-in well. Because he is the lord of this little world of his, king of the pollywogs, he is very proud of himself. But he doesn't know how small his world is until a turtle comes and tells him about the vastness of the sea. We human beings are like the frog, not realizing how little our worlds are.

  David Wong

  World, Proud, Realizing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Any really good scientist is as much an artist as a scientist. All the interesting stuff is found on the edge between knowing and not knowing. I know that sounds like a meditation teacher speaking, but when you're in the laboratory, or you're theorizing about physics, you need to know what you know, but if you can't get out from under that, you won't be able to make that insightful, first-time connection that nobody else has seen before.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Teacher, Artist, Interesting

  Source: eomega.org

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