Quotes About Insight

Initially, a simple phrase chased round and round in Cecilia's thoughts: Of course, of course. How had she not seen it? Everything was explained. The whole day, the weeks before, her childhood. A lifetime. It was clear to her now. Why else take so long to choose a dress, or fight over a vase, or find everything so different, or be unable to leave? What had made her so blind, so obtuse?

While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling for what was right. It was hard to explain how I knew what I knew.

And it interests him less to have the world reinvented; he wants it explained.

My pleasure in reading is not necessarily the witnessing of something new, but of something familiar which I haven't seen described.

He turned out the lamps and walked down to his bedroom. He had no preliminary sketch of an idea, not a scrap, not even a hunch, and he would not find it by sitting at the piano and frowning hard. It could come only in its own time. He knew from experience that the best he could do was relax, step back

Hiába csillogott oly tetszetÅ'sen az értelem, nem oldott meg semmit.

Ci si misura rapportandosi agli altri, non esiste alternativa. Di quando in quando, in modo assolutamente involontario, arriva qualcuno e ti insegna qualcosa sul tuo conto.

I made the enthusiast's mistake of assuming that everyone shared my previous ignorance.

Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals.

He had never learned anything new at a meeting.

From the first sentence, we come into a presence, and we can see for ourselves the quality of a particular mind; in a matter of minutes we may read the fruits of a long-forgotten afternoon, an afternoon's work done in isolation, 150 years ago. And what was once an unfolding personal secret is now ours.

I want you to be the Admiral Nagumo of my staff. I want your every thought, every instinct as you believe Admiral Nagumo might have them. You are to see the war, their operations, their aims, from the Japanese viewpoint

Freewheeling intuition was respected, but so was the plodding line of attack they called "siege tactics.

You're so shortsighted, you might as well be blind!

Why don't you use your own sword?" George asked. "He might break it." "I wouldn't." Hugh put his hand on his heart. "He would," I told George. "He's a sonovabitch." Hugh laughed. "We just met and she knows me so well.

Honey, we can fill this place with what we know and you don't.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.

There are a lot of benefits to having a team of young people, but there are many benefits to having people who've made a lot of mistakes.

I'd rather see what young people are going through than see things explode.

I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.

Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.