Insightful Quotes - Page 24

• Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

  Ali Smith

  Joy, Stories, Tough

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• Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.

  Richard Bach

  Funny, Beautiful, Wise

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• I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there is a large deal of detection in the short story.

  Mary Lavin

  Thinking, Stories, Want

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• Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient.

  David Foster Wallace

  Communication, Connections, Stories

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• If people throw rocks at you, collect them and build something.

  Jim Garrett

  Inspirational, Success, Rocks

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• Money is not worth dying for. I know, because years ago, while nearly a million dollars in debt, suicide was an option. Rather than run, rich dad suggested I write down all the mistakes I made and then seek help. If I made accounting mistakes, I talked to an accountant. If there was a legal mistake, I talked to an attorney. That was my way out. That is how I got smarter.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Suicide

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• There are many similarities between Germans and blacks. The nouns themselves are loaded with so much historical baggage it's impossible for anyone to be indifferent to the simple mention of either group. We're two insightful people looking for reasons to love ourselves; and let's not forget we both love pork and wear sandals with socks.

  Paul Beatty

  Love, Simple, Two

  Paul Beatty (2008). “Slumberland: A Novel”, Bloomsbury USA

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• 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.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  Relationship, Business, People

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• He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Time, Commitment

  "Wallenstein". Book by Friedrich Schiller translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Prologue), 1798.

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• Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

  Adelaide Hasse

  Witty, Motivation, Humorous

  Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1919). “The Compensations of Librarianship”

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• The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

  Raymond Charles Barker

  Life, Happiness, Attitude

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• One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas only come to me for short stories. With longer fiction, it is a character (or characters) coming to visit, and I am then obliged to collaborate with him/her/it/them in creating the story.

  Roger Zelazny

  Writing, Character, Ideas

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• I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Thinking, People

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

  Garry Winogrand

  Beautiful, Photography, Interesting

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

  Robert H. Schuller

  Wisdom, Attitude, News

  Robert H. Schuller (2002). “The Be Happy Attitudes”, p.40, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Photographer, Helping

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• To achieve long-term success over many financial market and economic cycles, observing a few rules is not enough. Too many things change too quickly in the investment world for that approach to succeed. It is necessary instead to understand the rationale behind the rules in order to appreciate why they work when they do and don't when they don't.

  Seth Klarman

  Order, Long, Appreciate

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• Live dangerously and you live right.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Success

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre (1957). “Goethe's Faust, Part 1: New American Version”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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• When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Training, Technique

  " Truman Capote's previously unknown boyhood tales published" by Philip Oltermann, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2014.

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• The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Money, People, Money Talks

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• Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

  Tobias Wolff

  Order, Stories, Weight

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• Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Writing, Stories, Progression

  Isobelle Carmody, Nan McNab (2011). “The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)”, p.4, Allen & Unwin

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• In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wise

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal jellyfish, and unicorns of the sea? The Extreme Life of the Sea is an insightful book that inspires awe and wonder about our ocean, and brilliantly shows us the immense possibilities of life on Earth.

  Enric Sala

  Ocean, Book, Sea

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• Fred Wilson is a legendary VC and the Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures in New York City. At AVC, he writes one of the most popular startup blogs and covers issues from negotiation to hiring to fundraising. He's a machine for dispensing helpful advice and insightful commentary for those in our industry.

  Emerson Spartz

  New York, Writing, Squares

  "8 Bloggers to Follow for Startup Inspiration and Advice". www.businessinsider.com. June 28, 2013.

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