Insight Quotes

"The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak."

- Boris Spassky

"To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas."

- Alan Wilson Watts

"I have always been fascinated by the law of reversed effort. Sometimes I call it the 'backwards law.' When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float. When you hold your breath, you lose it—which immediately calls to mind an ancient and much neglected saying, 'Whosoever would save his soul shall lose it.'"

- Alan W. Watts

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward."

- Steve Jobs

"Your master plan has holes big enough to drive a truck through."

- Ilona Andrews

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

- Abraham Maslow

"You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing that the enemy does not expect."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster."

- Sun Tzu

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."

- Decouvertes

"Learning defense improves the attack. If the lion knows how the prey can escape, it’ll capture it in a much more precise way."

- Rillion Gracie

"Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?"

- Jay Leno

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe."

- Albert Einstein

"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"

- Albert Einstein

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."

- Aldous Huxley

"Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going."

- Paul Theroux

"Accounting is the compass guiding corporations through the economic wilderness."

- Samantha Wilson

"Accounting is not just about tracking numbers; it’s about navigating the financial journey of corporations."

- David Taylor

"In the realm of finance, every accountant is a translator, turning numerical chaos into financial clarity."

- Richard Turner

"Accounting is not just about numbers; it’s about decoding the language of economic opportunity."

- Melissa Davis

"To understand accounting is to read the financial story written in numbers."

- Sarah Brown

"Accounting is the compass that guides us through the economic journey of life."

- Michael Johnson

"Accounting is not just about solving equations; it’s about solving the mysteries of economic prosperity."

- David Taylor

"In the world of business, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."

- Warren Buffett

"I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights."

- Maya Angelou

"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."

- Thelonious Monk

"The engineer’s first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is."

- Sir Henry Royce

"Memory is a complicated thing, relative to truth, but not its twin."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising."

"In the silence of solo travel, you'll find the answers you've been seeking."

"I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me."