Insight Quote by Henry A. Kissinger Download Open image “Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.” — Henry A. Kissinger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Insight Intellectual capital Office Officials Perception Wisdom
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Watching people leave is hard, but it's harder remembering that time when they promised they wouldn't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People leave because they can't figure out what the problem really is! — Michael Barbarulo Copy Share Image
I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened. — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
“One of the imponderables in our system of government is how rapidly and easily secretaries of state, defense, and treasury, high-ranking military officers, congressmen,… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Some people left and some people stay, It's you have to realize who are best and who are rest. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave. — Janos Kadar Copy Share Image
Some people leave, yeah, and it sucks. But some people don't leave, and they never will. And sometimes people are there, but you just… — Robin Benway Copy Share Image
I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." [...]… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn't just social segregation; this was the beginning of… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken seriously in… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Taiwan will probably not declare independence. The question isn't independence. The issue is whether Taiwan will declare itself as a sovereign separate state. That… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most sophisticated and highly evolved system is that originated by Joseph Scogna. I was impressed by the profound insights into the relationship… — Rudolph Ballentine Copy Share Image
I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work. — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image