Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Sedaris

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

Louis C. K.

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

David Duchovny

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.

Charlie Munger

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

Benjamin Franklin

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

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?'

Dave Ramsey

Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

John Maynard Keynes

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

David Hahn

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

Chuck Norris

You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

I think it's a very powerful tool for parents as well as kids. We know in our society right now that we have some real issues with obesity ... and maybe this will be the insight that will in turn make a difference.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

That doesn't give me any insight if it's just a run-of-the-mill 'here's my formula' recommendation letter.

Henry Ford

Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.

Heidi Klum

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

Germaine Greer

Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Immanuel Kant

Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing

Isobelle Carmody

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

Paul Hawken

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

Pamela Stephenson

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.

Paul Gauguin

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

Max Planck

Insight must precede application.

Eric Hoffer

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

You get a sense that the letter-writer is in a groove, pouring out these words that give you insight to what this person is thinking.

Walter Kirn

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.

Walter White

Chemistry is, well technically, chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change.

Warren Buffett

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

Warren Buffett

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

Ramana Maharshi

Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

Leonard Nimoy

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.