Quotes About Insight

the humanities encourage the development of our own humanity. They are our instruments of self-exploration.

As a teenager, I virtually memorized my paperback editions, greedy for insider tips about the literary life. Pound, Eliot, Hemingway, Faulkner, Colette, Waugh—they were all there. What has stuck with me the most over the years is their almost universal insistence on the importance of revision, of revising and revising again.

They see the pattern, understand the order, experience the vision. Peter Drucker

This book, then, is a product of the last fifteen years, as well as a product of the fifteen years that preceded them. It was almost exactly eight years before The E-Myth was published that I founded our company, E-Myth Worldwide, which has provided the fuel and experience for the point of view I have shared with those of you who have read The E-Myth, and with those

Yes, the simple truth about the greatest businesspeople I have known is that they have a genuine fascination for the truly astonishing impact little things done exactly right can have on the world.

And we do that by making sure they understand the idea behind the work they're being asked to do.

When a person is only half an ass like me, and not a complete one, she senses certain things.

When you know as much as we do, nothing matters.

That brings me to the real reason for the title: Where does that which happens during reading a book take place? (...) Does not every reader, whether he wants it or not, bring (...) his own experiences and thoughts into the process of reading? (...) Is not every book a mirror in which the reader is reflected, whether he knows it or not? And is not every reader a mirror in which the book is reflected?

Al igual que tenéis ojos para ver la luz y oídos para escuchar los sonidos, también tenéis un corazón para percibir el tiempo. Y todo el tiempo que no se percibe con el corazón está tan perdido como los colores del arco iris para un ciego o el canto de un pájaro para un sordo. Pero, por desgracia, existen corazones ciegos y sordos que no perciben nada, aunque tengan latido.

Most of the time she could slip into other people, so to speak, and discover what they really meant and who they actually were behind their words. But she couldn't do it with this visitor. No matter how often she tried to understand his thoughts, she always got the feeling that she was falling into empty darkness, as if there weren't even a person there at all.

Todo el tiempo que no se percibe con el corazón está tan perdido como los olores del arco iris para un ciego o el canto de un pájaro para un sordo. Pero, por desgracia, hay corazones ciegos y sordos que no perciben nada, a pesar de latir.

Belki ÅŸimdi pek çok kimse, bu da bir ÅŸey mi, herkes dinlemesini bilir, diyecektir. Oysa hiç de öyle deÄŸil. Çok az insan gerçekten iyi bir dinleyicidir.

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

Michael Gruber

The problem was that you didn't always know what you were seeing until later, maybe years later, that a lot of it never made it in at all, it just stayed stored there in your eyes. Time and information, rock and roll, life itself, the information isn't frozen, you are.

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.

The only thing any of us can do completely on our own is to have the start of a good idea.

You can keep mistakes from happening if you can identify the almost mistakes. This kind of changes how I view everything.

if you challenge the conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.

When someone says something, don't ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of.

Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion. —Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

The way the creative process works is that .you first say something, and later, sometimes years later, you understand what you said.