Best Insightful Quotes

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Honesty is the best policy.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more.

A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful.

Treat a child as though he already is the person he’s capable of becoming.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity to come.

To seek out making films that are unique and insightful, boundary-pushing and genre-bending, and not films that fit into the neat, little boxes that people want (expect) women to be making. In some ways, I guess for me, any filmmaker should strive to be a good director first, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation etc.

Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with right fit prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis…This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance.

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

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.

A masterfully written text for the M&A student and professional: clear, concise, comprehensive, practical, and insightful.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

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.

I knew I’d chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord’s Prayer on it.

Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?

Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.

Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and passion of discovery, along with a heartfelt affection for those who keep alight the flame of our musical heritage.

Anybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.

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.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.