Quotes About Insight

Curiosities provoke people to investigate further, just as coincidences do. The initial "What's going on here?" reaction doesn't contain the insight, but it starts the person on the road to gaining the insight.

To quote Mark Twain, "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

Gottlieb's insight was to see the pattern, as opposed to Chalfie, who spotted an opportunity to combine seemingly unrelated ideas, and Markopolos and the young cop, who both homed in on an inconsistency.

Notice that creative desperation is more conscious and deliberate than spotting connections, coincidences, curiosities, and contradictions. People aren't accidentally stumbling onto insights. They are actively searching for them. Another example

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.

People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.

And I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second-----sometimes there is perfect understanding between two people who can't stand one another.

the best solutions are not immediate solutions.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

Ask yourself the "So what?" question. Ask it several times. Where does it lead you?

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch ' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.

The experience of intuition cannot be explained in terms of the five senses, because it is the voice of the nonphysical world.

Vodniki in u?itelji pomagajo duši na vsaki stopnji njene evolucije. Število vodnikov in u?iteljev, ki jih ima duša, je odvisno od tega, kaj si želi dose?i, in od njene ravni zavedanja. Duše, ki prevzamejo nase pomembnejše na?rte, dobe ve? pomo?i.

All creative people—which is everyone—require commitment and time and courage to grow into their insights.

When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are painful

Intuition is perception beyond the physical senses that is meant to assist you.

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

There is no original truth, only original error.

We understand nature by resisting it.

We must listen to poets.

The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.

A proverb is an exploding atom of wisdom.