Insightful Quotes

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich.

Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it

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

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

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

All Disruption starts with introspection.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

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

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.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

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

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

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.

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

Where there is no vision a people perish.

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

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

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

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

As you've noticed people don't want to be sold. What people do want is news and information about the things they care about.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.

Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.

May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering.

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.

I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

Don’t just create content to get credit for being clever — create content that will be helpful, insightful, or interesting for your target audience.

It's more than just selling pizzas. It's being a good fit for the community. We hire based on the betterment of the community as much as anything.

Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.