Thoughtful Insight Quotes & Sayings

A balanced life has a rhythym. But we live in a time, and in a culture, that encourages everyone to just move faster. I'm learning that if I don't take the time to tune in to my own more deliberate pace, I end up moving to someone else's, the speed of events around me setting a tempo that leaves me feeling scattered and out of touch with myself. I know now that I can't write fast; that words, my own thoughts and ideas, come to the surface slowly and in silence. A close relationship with myself requires slowness. Intimacy with my husband and guarded teenage sons requires slowness. A good conversation can't be hurried, it needs time in which to meander its way to revelation and insight. Even cooking dinner with care and attention is slow work. A thoughtful life is not rushed. — Katrina Kenison

The anti-Stratfordians hold that Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare's plays - it was another fellow of the same name, or of a different name. In this they invert the megalomaniacal equation and make themselves not the elect, but the superior of the elect. Barred from composing Shakespeare's plays by a regrettable temporal accident, they, in the fantasy of most every editor, accept the mantle of primum mobile, consign the (falsely named) creator to oblivion, and turn to the adulation of the crowd for their deed of discovery and insight - so much more thoughtful and intellectual than the necessarily sloppy work of the writer. — David Mamet

Bryzgalov isn't just a running comedy act. He's one of the league's most thoughtful players and the fact that he offers the insight he does in his second language is something he'll never get enough credit for. — Ilya Bryzgalov

Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life. — Bijan

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. — Thomas Carlyle

Delivering a speech or presentation is like cooking a meal; as long as the chef is good the cuisine doesn't matter. — Jack Canfield

I always think I look better after a yoga class. It's the same as a massage. We look so amazing after a massage because we're relaxed. — Andie MacDowell

I am trying to be sophisticated and cool!
Get a beret. — Alison Kennedy

[When asked if he had ever learned anything about his work from film criticism]
No. To see a film once and write a review is an absurdity. Yet very few critics ever see a film twice or write about films from a leisurely, thoughtful perspective. The reviews that distinguish most critics, unfortunately, are those slambang pans which are easy to write and fun to write and absolutely useless. There's not much in a critic showing off how clever he is at writing silly, supercilious gags about something he hates. — Stanley Kubrick

I like boring golf. That's kind of what butters my bread. — Zach Johnson

Spread this over Vanni's — Robyn Carr

It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes. — Travis Tritt