Quotes About Insight

The best camera is already always with you, because the best, sensor is your brain and the best lens is your eyes.

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

three crucial benefits provided by solitude: "new ideas; an understanding of the self; and closeness to others.

We like to think of innovation as striking us in a stunning eureka moment, where you all at once change the way people see the world, leaping far ahead of our current understanding. I'm arguing that in reality, innovation is more systematic.

Be disciple of depth in shallow world.

some decisions are better left to your unconscious mind to untangle.

In other words, those with the oracular ability to work with and tease valuable results out of increasingly complex machines will thrive.

the whiteboard effect. For some types of problems, working with someone else at the proverbial shared whiteboard can push you deeper than if you were working alone. The presence of the other party waiting for your next insight—be it someone physically in the same room or collaborating with you virtually—can short-circuit the natural instinct to avoid depth.

depth and meaning.

Driven by this insight, while my classmates contemplated their true calling, I went seeking opportunities to master rare skills that would yield big rewards.

regularly read and understand the cutting-edge results in my field.

The presence of the other party waiting for your next insight—be it someone physically in the same room or collaborating with you virtually—can short-circuit the natural instinct to avoid depth.

attention" to uncover the truth latent in each. In other words, he teaches: To learn requires intense concentration.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold—where we trip is where the treasure lies.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.

There's always a source for humor.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul?