Insightful Quotes

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.

I didn't choose photography. Photography chose me.

Don’t just create content to get credit for being clever — create content that will be helpful, insightful, or interesting for your target audience.

If you can predict the rate at which you create (or create and grow) qualified pipeline, and you know your average close rate(s), then you can start predicting your revenue.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

I'm not leaving until you say yes.

First, never go against the best light you have; second, take care that your light be not darkness.

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.

I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there is a large deal of detection in the short story.

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

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

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.

It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

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.

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.

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