Insightful Quotes - Page 5

• Ignorance is not an extension of time

  H. G. Wells

  Inspirational, Success, Ignorance

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• I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Essentials, May

  Modern Maturity magazine Interview, December-January 1975-76.

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• Stubbornness destroys good advice.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Advice

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• Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Interesting, Too Much

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• When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire?

  Robert G. Allen

  Inspirational, Success, People

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• Airline hostesses show you how to use a seatbelt in case you haven't been in a car since 1965.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Travel, Car

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• There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.

  Elvis Presley

  Inspirational, Success, People

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• Value investing is risk aversion.

  Seth Klarman

  Risk, Investing, Aversion

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• Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Change

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Smart, Political, Intelligence

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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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• Each person is the universe from a particular perspective.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Inspirational, Success, Perspective

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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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• Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.

  Louis C. K.

  Quality, Cost, Pay

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• I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

  William Shatner

  Inspirational, Success, Running

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• Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Mistake, Learning

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• Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

  Jessica Simpson

  Inspirational, Success, Twenties

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  There is nothing permanent except change.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

  Larry Niven

  Space, Dinosaurs, Exploration

  "A Conversation With Arthur C. Clarke; An Author's Space Odyssey and His Stay at the Chelsea". www.nytimes.com. Ooctober 26, 1999.

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• You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Thinking

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• Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Success, Rights

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• It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

  Nancy Astor

  Inspirational, Success, Men

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• Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Inspirational, Success, Secret

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• You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.

  Larry Winget

  Inspirational, Success, Hard Work

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.33, Penguin

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