Insightful Quotes

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.

The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily.

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

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame.

It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond.

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

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

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.

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.

Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.

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

First begin between selves, set a definite time, at each at that time put down what the other is doing. Do this 20 days. You shall find you have the key to telepathy.

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

Words transform. Speak only with a good purpose. Say only things that serve you and others. Choose your words wisely.

Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

Vanity prevents improvement

The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

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

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.