Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Sedaris

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

Louis C. K.

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

David Duchovny

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.

Benjamin Franklin

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

Dave Ramsey

Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

Brian Tracy

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

That doesn't give me any insight if it's just a run-of-the-mill 'here's my formula' recommendation letter.

Charlie Munger

The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

Chuck Norris

You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

John Maynard Keynes

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

I think it's a very powerful tool for parents as well as kids. We know in our society right now that we have some real issues with obesity ... and maybe this will be the insight that will in turn make a difference.

You get a sense that the letter-writer is in a groove, pouring out these words that give you insight to what this person is thinking.

David Hahn

The mantra should change from 'Always Be Closing' to 'Always to helping'.

Kurt Vonnegut

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing

Isobelle Carmody

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

Paul Hawken

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

Pamela Stephenson

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

Paul Gauguin

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

Germaine Greer

Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Immanuel Kant

Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

Eric Hoffer

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

Heidi Klum

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

Henry Ford

Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.

Max Planck

Insight must precede application.

Steve Jobs

You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

Tavis Smiley

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.

Richard Branson

If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.

Steven Wright

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

Ramana Maharshi

Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

Raymond Carver

What good are insights? They only make things worse.