Insightful Quotes - Page 7

• View every problem as an opportunity.

  Joseph Sugarman

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

  Joseph Sugarman (1980). “Success forces”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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• I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine. I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Way, Shrines

  "The Phil Donahue Show", 1984.

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• While we are postponing, life speeds by.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Wise, World

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• I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.

  Debra Winger

  Moving, Reading, Thinking

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• And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Philosophical, Giving

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.25, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Funny, Jobs, Work

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• I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Thinking, Investing

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• The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Travel, Missing

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• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Speech at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 6 Sept. 1943

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• I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Atheist, Believe, Religion

  "Multiple Intelligences in Practice: Enhancing Self-esteem and Learning in the Classroom (Section 2: Using MI)". Book by Mike Fleetham, April 13, 2006.

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• The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Atheist, Religion

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.124, NYU Press

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• My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

  Steve McCurry

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

  "Steve McCurry’s Photographs Of His Travels Will Give You The Chills" by Rebecca Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2015.

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• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

  J. Paul Getty

  Change, Business, Risk

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• That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Character, Years, Perspective

  "Leadership Begins With Character" by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2012.

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• I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.

  Bill Parcells

  Confidence, Like You, Genuine

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• The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Children

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

  Elvis Presley

  Inspirational, Success, Kids

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• So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

  Christopher Reeve

  Positive, Inspiring, Graduation

  Christopher Reeve (1998). “Still Me”, Random House Incorporated

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• Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Encouraging, Spiritual

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• The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Happiness, Uplifting, Kindness

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2014). “The Art of Being Alive - Revisited (Annotated): Success Through Thought”, p.24, BookBaby

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• I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

  William Shatner

  Inspirational, Success, Hard Work

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• Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Religious, Atheist, Fear

  "The New York Times", December 3, 1978.

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• You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

  Zadie Smith

  Real, Different, Stories

  Zadie Smith (2005). “Martha and Hanwell”, Penguin Hardcover

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• I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

  Howard Stern

  Inspirational, Success, Self Esteem

  "Howard Stern and the Satellite Wars". Interview with Ana Marie Cox, www.wired.com. March 01, 2005.

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