Quotes on Insightful

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

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

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

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.

Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

You're nobody 'til somebody kills you.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It would have seemed almost miraculous for these things to be movies someday. To me, they were just comic books that I hoped would sell so I could keep my job.

Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts

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

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

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

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

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

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