Insightful Quotes - Page 4

• A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Writing, Story Writers, Stories

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  People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Success, Acceptance

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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  My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

  Jack Benny

  Love, Funny, Relationship

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• 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.

  Homer

  Fate, Hardship, Blame

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• Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

  Stephen Covey

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Inspiration

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• The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Inspiring, Confidence

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love, Wise, Dream

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• You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Wise, Women

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• The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Intelligent, Men

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett, David Taffel (2005). “The Kingdom of God is Within You: Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion But as a New Theory of Life”, p.45, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• 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.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Country, Duplicity

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• I don't really care if they like me or not.

  Heidi Klum

  Inspirational, Success, Care

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• Protect the downside. Worry about the margin of safety.

  Peter Cundill

  Safety, Worry, Protect

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• People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

  Saul Bellow

  Ideas, People, Realizing

  Saul Bellow, Gloria L. Cronin, Ben Siegel (1994). “Conversations with Saul Bellow”, p.95, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Wise, People

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• When people show you who they are ... believe them!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...

  Beatrix Potter

  Children, Real, Believe

  Journal entry, from the National Trust collection, November 17, 1968.

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• Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

  George Eliot

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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• Q: Does this train stop at Brighton? A: I hope so or there's going to be a hell of a splash.

  Kenny Everett

  Funny, Travel, Doe

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• We have a passion for keeping things simple.

  Charlie Munger

  Passion, Simple, Simplicity

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• Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

  Charlie Munger

  Objectivity, Focus, Investing

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

  William Shatner

  Inspirational, Success, Flavor

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