Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Buffett

If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.

Warren Buffett

The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.

Warren Buffett

Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.

William Blake

If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.

Wallace Shawn

In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.

Tove Jansson

The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness seemed to reach higher and higher and further and further away, right to the end of the world.

Wilfred Burchett

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

Wilhelm Keitel

No matter what Hitler said, he spoke with a fine feeling for the particular circle which he addressed. ... He was a great psychologist.

Stephenie Meyer

Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.

Ronald Reagan

We can look forward to the day when the free flow of trade, from the southern reaches of Tierra del Fuego to the northern outposts of the Arctic Circle, unites the people of the Western Hemisphere in a bond of mutually beneficial exchange, when all borders become what the U.S.-Canadian border so long has been: a meeting place, rather than a dividing line.

Sally Quinn

Its always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

Susan Cain

.. it makes sense that introverts are uniquely good at leading intiative-takers. Because of their inclination to listen to others and lack of interest in dominating social situations, introverts are more likely to hear and implement suggestions. Having benefited from the talents of their followers, they are then likely to motivate them to be even more proactive. Introverted leaders create a virtious circle of proactivity.

The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.

Peace Pilgrim

Visualize a golden light within you and spread it out. First to those about you - your circle of friends and relatives - and then gradually to the world. Keep on visualizing God's golden light surrounding our earth.

Pythagoras

Don't disarrange my circles!

Shari Arison

Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.

Laura Riding

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

Taslima Nasrin

I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.

Stephen King

The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.

Marcus Aurelius

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

Thor Heyerdahl

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

Toni Morrison

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

Swoosie Kurtz

Its so funny whenever things come full circle.

Swami Vivekananda

There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.

Samantha Morton

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change

Rumi

I have no name for what circles so perfectly.

Thomas Merton

Zen enriches no one. There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while in the place where it is thought to be. But they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the "nothing," the "no-body" that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen. It was there all the time but the scavengers missed it, because it was not their kind of prey.

Simon Cowell

Most things in music go full circle eventually.

Sun Tzu

In the tumult and uproar, the battle seems chaotic, but there is no disorder, the troops appear to be milling about in circles but cannot be defeated.

T. S. Eliot

The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop

Terry Pratchett

I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.

Wassily Kandinsky

The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.