Quotes About Insight

The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light, and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight.

Man can live the most amazing things if they make sense to him. But the difficulty is to create that sense.

A dream is nothing but a lucky idea that comes to us from the dark, all-unifying world of the psyche. What would be more natural, when we have lost ourselves amid the endless particulars and isolated details of the world's surface, than to knock at the door of dreams and inquire of them the bearings which would bring us closer to the basic facts of human existence?

We have come back from Jerusalem where we found not what we sought!

there is no mystery of human behavior that cannot be solved inside your head or your heart.

I realize this now, but I didn't know it then." Of course, if it is in their heads now, so was it then. What they mean is that they only now accept the significance

I have seen these pieces so often that I may recognize them sooner than some people, but my main job is just to get them on the table.

Curiosity is, after all, the way we answer when intuition whispers, "There's something there.

The defense for too many details is simple: bring the context into conscious thought.

Ingmar Bergman said, "Imagine I throw a spear into the dark. That is my intuition. Then I have to send an expedition into the jungle to find the spear. That is my intellect.

Because there was no expectation that I'd be right on any of this, I had simply said what came into my head. I thought I was making it up, creating it. More likely, I was calling it up, discovering it.

I spent half my childhood and half my adulthood practicing prediction while perfecting denial.

Many experts lose the creativity and imagination of the less informed. They are so intimately familiar with known patterns that they may fail to recognize or respect the importance of the new wrinkle. The process of applying expertise is, after all, the editing out of unimportant details in favor of those known to be relevant.

Often, knowing the language of a given prediction is more important than understanding exactly what a person says.

intuition is always right in at least two important ways; It is always in response to something. it always has your best interest at heart

E?ti considerat geniu nu numai prin ceea ce ai scris, ci ?i prin ceea ce ai evitat s? scrii.

listen so intently that people bring forth their own wisdom.

Your worry-thoughts, particularly if you find yourself recycling the same ones over and over, are a flag waving at you from your Zone of Genius. Something is trying to get your attention.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. —John Wooden

They were unabashed voyeurs looking at him; and Talese looked back.

Si nuestra sociedad tuviera la oportunidad de ser voyeur por un día, abordaría la vida de manera muy distinta a como lo hace ahora.

I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

Because you don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not." "If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys.

Gayle Forman