Quotes About Wisdom

For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.

Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline.

You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

I read, I watch a lot of movies, I'm constantly living, so I'm constantly having more to say.

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

I just learn from every legend that I've watched. I learned from the best.

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

I did get to hang out with my dad for a little while. I went with him to summer stock. I watched him be a real king of the world. He'd ship out as a star in summer stock. He sometimes directed the shows. I learned a lot from him - not just about acting, but about everything, how to handle a woman.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Of course I am tough, but I am smart, too. I'm more smart than tough. People watching my record and say that this guy is tough. This is not about tough; this is about mind. You think when you fight. This is about everything.

I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.

You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

I definitely watch the older guys. I'm always watching; that's how I learn.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water.

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

There are times when leadership needs to take a bold move forward. And there are times when the leadership needs to act on the basis of what the grass roots say. You need to have your political thermometer constantly in the political waters to know when to give leadership in what way.

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

I've never watched any videos of my time on 'Celebrity Big Brother'. Honestly. It's something I could save for when I'm an old man. It was a watershed, the catalyst to the end of my second marriage.

I've had many managers, and learned a lot from them, the good ones always stayed even-keeled, never rode the waves.

I don't like sensationalizing events. Instead of making waves, I want to make everything settle, so we can see to the bottom of things.