Quotes by Insightful The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite. Dale Dauten insightfulnamesopportunity Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter. David Duchovny encountersinterviewsinsightful The mantra should change from 'Always Be Closing' to 'Always to helping'. David Hahn insightfulmarketinghelping 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 connectionsinsightfulcommunication What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form. David Ogilvy insightfulmarketingbusiness A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. David Sedaris insightfulstorieswriting I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed. David Sedaris patternschangedinsightful Zhuangzi is especially insightful about the human pretension to know. The Zhuangzi tells a story about a frog who lives in caved-in well. Because he is the lord of this little world of his, king of the pollywogs, he is very proud of himself. But he doesn't know how small his world is until a turtle comes and tells him about the vastness of the sea. We human beings are like the frog, not realizing how little our worlds are. David Wong insightfulproudworld Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. Denis Waitley insightfulmotivationalpast Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. Duane Michals nikoninsightfulphotography A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. Edgar Allan Poe story-writersinsightfulwriting First begin between selves, set a definite time, at each at that time put down what the other is doing. Do this 20 days. You shall find you have the key to telepathy. Edgar Cayce insightfulkeysself The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side. Emma Donoghue insightfulstoriessides Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired. Erik Erikson insightfulhopelife A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps. Eudora Welty insightfultryingcharacter Toby Tyrrell unravels the various formulations of Gaia and explains how recent scientific developments bring the hypothesis into question. His criticisms are insightful, profound, and convincing, but fair. On Gaia is wonderfully informative and a pleasure to read. Francisco J. Ayala insightfulcriticismprofound I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. Franklin D. Roosevelt smartinsightfulpolitical 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. G. I. Gurdjieff evolution-of-maninsightfulmen Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life. Fyodor Dostoevsky meaning-of-lifeinsightfulmen My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. George Santayana insightfulatheistmen«1234567891011»
