Shrewdly Informed Quotes

#1. Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting.

Robin D. Laws

#2. The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

John Updike

#3. Never assume that others have understood exactly what you mean.

Steven Redhead

#4. Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.

Pearl S. Buck

#5. There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the 'material' environment of the rocks and the atmosphere to the living cells.

James Lovelock

#6. We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Warren Buffett

#7. It's always a pleasure to see you," I told him, my voice dripping with sarcasm. "Remember, red lights are for quitters.

Molly Harper

#8. Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

Elinor Glyn

#9. When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.

Michael Horton

#10. Learn how to think a few moves ahead at once. In life, if you can anticipate the human mind, you can anticipate all possible futures.

Lionel Suggs

#11. Consider what you can do to assist your inner work, try to do it as you think best, but it's actually only going to be done by you storming it ...

Belsebuub

#12. There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.

Graham Lowe

#13. If one day someone came up to me and was like, 'Look, you're never going to act again,' I don't know what I would do.

Chris Pratt

#14. Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

Vance Havner

#15. The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.

Robert Smith