Astute Quotes

• One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

  William Feather

  Funny, Thinking, Finance

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• That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man's true character, make him drunk.

  Martin Luther

  Character, Men, People

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.293

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• Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

  Carol Burnett

  Growing Up, Want, Wells

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• Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Beautiful, Twilight, Effectiveness

  Eduardo Galeano (1983). “Days and Nights”, p.177, NYU Press

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• Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

  Martin Fry

  Song, Eras, Used

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• The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Teaching, Practice

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• Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Observation

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.99, Candlewick Press

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• I am humble enough to recognize that I have made mistakes, but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are.

  Michael Heseltine

  Mistake, Humble, Forgotten

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• To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

  Michael Ventura

  Crazy, Healthy, Blind

  Michael Ventura (1993). “Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment”, Spring Pubns

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• 'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals an astute insight into egotism, about how those with swollen pride or vanity cannot see anything larger than themselves.

  Huston Smith

  Blessed, Pride, Welfare Programs

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• Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.

  Andrea Barrett

  Dark, Evil, Gothic

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• Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Expression, Skills, Design

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• To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Character, People

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• The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.

  Bell Hooks

  Love Is, Verbs, Nouns

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• We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.

  Stephen Heintz

  Business, Moving, Today

  "Heirs to Rockefeller oil fortune divest from fossil fuels over climate change" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2014.

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• Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

  Pope Francis

  Lord, Circumstances, Summary

  "A Big Heart Open to God: An interview with Pope Francis". Interview with Antonio Spadaro, S.J., www.americamagazine.org. September 30, 2013.

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• Satan is an astute theologian.

  John Calvin

  Satan, Theologian

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• Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.

  Aaron Belz

  Communication, Media, Perspective

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Moving, Empathy, Political

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• I think the gold standard is a clinical diagnosis, that an astute clinician interacting with a child, interviewing the parents, talking with teachers makes the diagnosis based on some standard tests and also on clinical impression and skill.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Teacher, Children, Thinking

  "What is Autism?". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

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• I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Thinking, Doctrine

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• We all need to be astute in sending and reading power cues, so that we can prevent ourselves - and the world - from being manipulated by evil geniuses like Hitler.

  Nick Morgan

  Reading, Evil, Needs

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• [Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Minorities, Taught

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, Anchor

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• People are, by and large, quite poor at judging correct absolute values but are astute about determining relative values. Psychologists call this coherent arbitrariness, which suggests that individuals are coherent when they compare prices on a relative basis but arbitrary when those prices are considered versus fundamental value.

  Michael Mauboussin

  Relative Value, Judging, People

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• Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as a Third World city. The Tattooed Soldier is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge.

  Stuart Dybek

  Revenge, Book, Cities

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