Quotes About Insight

We can tell a lot about a woman from her books.

Intuition is truth.

We encounter truth within.

Sometimes, the answer is right outside your door...so open it & see things in a new light

Beware of those who love to give advice, but never want to receive it!

Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom.

It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people.

I only had three teachers, really, that were interesting, and all three of them were women.

Only mothers will ever know the true struggle and sacrifice it takes to create life. Authors come in at a close second.

Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.

Parenthood doesn't improve one's character, it exposes it.

People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.

Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want.

My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definitely.

I think any good standup or actor is part philosopher, part psychologist and sociologist, because you're constantly recreating behaviors.

I listen to a lot of standup comics.

Being at Stanford really opens your eyes to the world that's out there.

We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do.

Do you ever sit in Starbucks and watch people go by? Everyone has energy around them, and you can tell what kind of person they are just by the way they walk and talk.

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest - and sometimes painful - self-assessments.

It's funny, because what happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.