Quotes on Insightful

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.

We all want to get along well with other people, and one way to do this is to help people feel good about themselves. If you make a person feel smart and insightful, that person will enjoy your company.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Value investing is risk aversion.

A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things; first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

If you acknowledge that filming is an occasion where people express things they might not otherwise express, that offers a much more insightful analysis of why documentaries - even of the fly-on-the-wall variety - are powerful.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.