Insightful Quotes

It's magic. All of a sudden, the idea just pops up. Who knows how?

The costs savings was a big win, but now we also have a schedule of events and are clearly aware of when our contracts begin and end...we are much more strategic about how we source now.

My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big dramatic things that happen.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I've been around. He's fresh, he's new, he's insightful.

In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space.

You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

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

Looking at scenes of nature, for even a short while, can help us become more insightful, more creative, and more productive.

I make it a policy every election to only debate once, Democrats and Progressives. And I will say that the way that you have acted, very candidly, has been dishonorable in this entire campaign.

We've got some Democrats who are actually Tea Partiers right now. We need to build coalitions with them.

We need to understand that being an accomplice or accessory to those who seek to enslave our posterity, is no better than being the folks that are locking the chains themselves.

The ability to defend yourself is a basic necessity like food and water. We exempt food and water from the sales tax.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

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.

Protect the downside. Worry about the margin of safety.

Rich Christiansen is one of the most insightful, practical and cost-conscious entrepreneurs in the world today. Listen to Rich. He won't steer you wrong.

We work really hard never to get confused with what we know from what we think or hope or wish.

It must be hard being you,” she said. “Mr. Perfect on the outside. Dr. Evil on the inside.” “It’s not that hard. The rest of the world isn’t as insightful as you.

When did you get all insightful?" he asked. "I have no idea," Josh admitted. "I don't like it." "Me, either. Makes me feel like a girl. Don't tell anyone." (Ethan and Josh)

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

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

You only lose what you cling to.

Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is.

Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception

from the beginning, through themiddle years and up to theend:too bad, too bad, too bad.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.

sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

Love isn't about what you do for me. Love for me is where I see myself in relation to you.

Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight

I love and care for everyone because I know the pain of being unloved and uncared.

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.

The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.

In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.

Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.

There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.