Insightful Quotes - Page 5

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

It's kind of funny. When I got my diagnosis - cancer - I said to myself, 'Why me?' And then, the other day, when I got the good news, I said the same thing.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

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

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

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

Content is anything that adds value to the reader's life.

Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

Mike Myatt’s ‘Hacking Leadership’ is a must read… Mike combines insightful yet practical commentary with in the trenches leadership experience few can match. I would highly recommend this text to anyone looking to become a better leader.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

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

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

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

Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

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.

Toby Tyrrell unravels the various formulations of Gaia and explains how recent scientific developments bring the hypothesis into question. His criticisms are insightful, profound, and convincing, but fair. On Gaia is wonderfully informative and a pleasure to read.

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

To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.