Quotes About Insight

People will provide judgment, intuition, empathy, a moral compass, and human creativity.

Blink your eye and look at it again. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is no more.

As Jobs walked the floor of the Personal Computer Festival, he came to the realization that Paul Terrell of the Byte Shop had been right: Personal computers

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter.

Vea cosas que no se ven.

the ideal chief executive as an outside person, an inside person, and a person of action.

unexpected results drove new theories.

using analogy to discover nature's patterns.

One useful leadership talent is knowing when to push ahead against doubters and when to heed them.

the phone, 'You know that is not true,' " Brennan recalled. "He was going to drag me

if you suggested to people what the right thing to do would be, they would be smart enough to pick it up and do it

That seemed a bit odd. I didn't yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way

What is imagination?" she asked in an 1841 essay. "It is the Combining faculty. It brings together things, facts, ideas, conceptions in new, original, endless, ever-varying combinations. . . . It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science."25

At the end of the presentation someone asked whether he thought they should do some market research to see what customers wanted. "No," he replied, "because customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

Jobs lembrou-se do incidente vividamente porque foi a primeira vez que percebeu que seu pai não sabia tudo.

Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Nothing kills humor like a general and boring truth.

Jobs was blown away by bitmapping. "It was like a veil being lifted from my eyes," he recalled. "I could see what the future of computing was destined to be.

Because a lot of people think they're crazy, but in that craziness we see genius.

Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do.

the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them.

If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it," he told me. "I think different religions are different doors to the