Insight Quotes - Page 30

• I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Sports, Inspiration, Humor

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• Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

  Anatole France

  Humor, Reflection, Joy

  "The Literary Life". Book by Anatole France, 1888-1892.

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• There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

  Ricky Gervais

  Inspiration, School, Humor

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

  Mel Gibson

  Funny, Inspiring, Anniversary

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• If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Time, Understanding, Masters

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

  Brian Greene

  People, Development, Modern

  BookBrowse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

  Nhat Hanh

  Compassion, Meditation, Understanding

  "Burma's Monks: Already a Success". content.time.com. October 12, 2007.

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• If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mistake, Thinking, Creating

  "This Is the Buddha’s Love". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. March 1, 2006.

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• Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Beyond environment: falling back in love with Mother Earth" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2012.

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• To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.

  Steve Harvey

  New York, Thinking, People

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• God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Light, Self, Darkness

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.75, Macmillan

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• When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

  Lauryn Hill

  Thinking, Addiction, Creative

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

  Hans Hofmann

  Light, Energy, Painting

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists". Book by Katharine Kuh, p. 128, 1962.

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• True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

  Naveen Jain

  Philosophy, Opportunity, Thinking

  "An Entrepreneurial Perspective on Philanthropy" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2016.

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• Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Spiritual, Israel, America

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.947, Best Books on

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• If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

  Angelina Jolie

  Bullying, Stupid, Inspiration

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating.

  Michio Kaku

  Past, Ice, Play

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• High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Office, Decision, Intellectual

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• I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

  Charles Kuralt

  Mother, Father, Kids

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• Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

  Christopher Lasch

  Spiritual, Religious, Separation

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• All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

  George Henry Lewes

  Literature, Good Literature

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Distance, Life Is Like, Landscape

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

  Walter Lippmann

  Age, Taught, Teach

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.482, Harvard University Press

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• Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?

  Lindsay Lohan

  Inspirational, Success, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Children, Analysis, Way

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