Quotes About Insight

People calculate too much and think too little.

We have three baskets: in, out, and too tough. … We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the "too tough" basket.

I couldn't figure out how the seat belt worked. Then it just clicked.

Sometimes you see briefly into someone's heart, and it becomes a bond between you that goes beyond friendship.

But knowledge is not as much a prerequisite to understanding as is commonly supposed. We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few.

A truly sustainable relationship between earnings and operating cash flow requires that the two measures grow at comparable rates over the long term. When their rates of growth depart, an understanding of the causes can provide insight into how that discrepancy might be resolved. Such insight will provide guidance on the direction of future earnings and cash flow.

There are tales that can give you yourself completely and the world could never treat you so badly then that you wouldn't neglect it. One can get everything by listening or looking in the right way: there are all sorts of turns.

When what you write about is what you see, what do you write about when it's dark? from "32

and if you haven't lived through it, you couldn't possibly understand how it was.

You have to recognize opportunity, no matter how subtle the knock. Everything doesn't happen at once. One thing leads to another as the building blocks of your life start to take form. This was one of those times, and I just knew it.

Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

Hear with your eyes, see with your ears

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.

If we have the patience to wait until the mud (our mind) settles and the water is clear, if we remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself, the right words will arise, without our thinking about them.

We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters. . . . To become intimate with Shakespeare in this way is a great enrichment of mind and instruction of conscience. Then, by degrees, as we go on reading this world-teacher, lines of insight and beauty take possession of us, and unconsciously mould our judgments of men and things and of the great issues of life.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Lack of courage keeps us from understanding others' perspectives.

A mentor's value is not always born by being right but by making you think twice or maybe thrice.