Famous Quotes & Sayings

What this document gives us is rare insight into the imponderable process of decision-making by which this most complex of quartet movements is made over into a work for piano four-hands.

What this document gives us is a rare insight into the imponderable process of decision making.

Chris Bohjalian

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Cheryl Richardson

If you want to enjoy life more fully, the trick is to teach yourself to live in the insightful mode more often.

Charlie Munger

We have a passion for keeping things simple.

Charlie Munger

We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good investments and that you wanted to be in good investments, and therefore, you'd just find a few of them that you knew a lot about and concentrate on those seemed to me such an obviously good idea. And indeed, it's proven to be an obviously good idea. Yet 98% of the investing world doesn't follow it. That's been good for us.

Charlie Munger

We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

Charlie Munger

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

Charlie Munger

The only way to win is to work, work, work, work, and hope to have a few insights

Charlie Munger

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

Charlie Munger

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

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

The post-impact sediments record the recovery of the continental-shelf target area from devastating impact mega-tsunamis to the passive continental shelf and coastal plain that continues today. Comparison of the section in Virginia with more complete sections sampled in New Jersey and Delaware will yield new insight into global sea-level changes and the distribution of water-bearing units in the coastal plain.

Steve Thomas

We are proud to be a part of exposing area students to local and national celebrities that provide insight into career opportunities on and off the field. The Career in Sports panel underscores our ongoing commitment to the communities where we live and work.

William Shakespeare

When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm a compulsive note-taker, and I used to feel self-conscious about pulling out my little notebook and taking notes during a casual conversation. Then I noticed that people really seemed to enjoy it; the fact that I was taking notes made their remarks seem particularly insightful or valuable. Now I don't hold myself back.

Louis C. K.

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

Kurt Vonnegut

A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.

Carolyn Porco

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

Ben Shneiderman

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures

The reasons why executives are scared of social selling are well documented. That being said, there are some hugely successful global business leaders using social selling tactics incredibly well - some of which even admit they could not operate without it!

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?'

Brad Pitt

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

Jamie Hyneman

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

James E. Faust

I personally claim no special insight into Satan's methods, but I have at times been able to identify his influence and his actions in my life and in the lives of others. When I was on my first mission, Satan sought to divert me from my future path and, if possible, to destroy my usefulness in the Lord's work.

Tracie Peterson

I've actually traveled quite a bit with various authors. Judith Miller and I toured the highlands in Scotland with Liz Curtis Higgs, and that was incredible fun. However, I love going with my husband, who - although he is not a writer per se, he is a historian and can give me a lot of insight on various historical locations.

SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

Eric Kandel

Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.

Janna Levin

The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.

Aimee Bender

I want to be violated by insight.

David Sedaris

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

David Sedaris

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.