Quotes About Insight

Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.

After a day's fishing, I'll know the solution to something or have good ideas that were not accessible before.

Understanding is the solution to every problem.

Everybody has problems in their life and the smarter people are the ones who know how to find a solution.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.

If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand.

One way to solve a mystery is by asking the right questions until answers start to emerge.

Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.

I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

Data helps solve problems.

In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.

I love Joan Didion, but I love her writing. I don't think meeting her could solve my problems or make me understand the world better.

I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve.

When you're in finance, you see the company deeply - where it's running well and where there's issues you've got to solve.

Generally, you cannot solve a problem without defining the problem completely.

Spend time with the customers, immersing yourselves, watching. Spend time at their homes. Hear what they say, but most importantly, watch their behaviors as the indication of where the pain is. And then go solve that pain.

If you're a set of guys looking to start a company, think about women you could team up with - they will see things differently and solve problems you didn't even realize you had.

Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and look back and go, 'Oh, that's what this is all about,' and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it.

Fixing this broken system will take the perspective of someone who has actually solved problems. 31 years of manufacturing taught me how.

When the actors look your character, half the problems are solved.

I've long believed that the work-out life has lessons for the writing life. I've 'solved' a lot of books while at the gym, in part because I'm not trying to solve them at that precise moment.