Quotes About Insight

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

Your body is smarter than you are, so you always have to stay one step ahead.

Professional or amateur, athletes want to see progress. We like to see numbers and metrics improve, and when you have deeper insight into what's going on inside your body, you're empowered to make changes to improve and become stronger.

You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.

You don't know your child until they get here; you don't know their personality.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the reader wants to read about his trip, not yours.' Whereas I say, the reader just wants to read a good story and to maybe learn something.

Without really trying to, I've become a sort of jailhouse lawyer of relationships - someone who's had to do so much work on her own case that I can now help you with yours.

Talking to people is beneficial if you can identify the right people to share ideas and discuss decisions because everyone has blind spots, and others can sometimes catch yours. I think an investment team is a bad idea, but it is a good idea to talk to trustworthy individuals who do not have biases or interests.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

When you're uncomfortable, that's when you learn something new about yourself.

Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.

I think the more cricket you play, the more you will learn about yourself and learn about life in general.

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.