Quotes About Insight

Steve once told me that the gestation of great products takes much longer than it appears. What seems to emerge from nowhere belies a long process of development, trials, and missteps.

Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.

You can observe a lot by watching.

When someone witnesses something amazing, what matters most is not 'out there' . . . but deep within, at the vital emotional center of witness.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind.

A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.

No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.

The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

A realist is a man who knows both the world and his own dreams.

In order to succeed, it is not necessary to be much cleverer than other people. All you have to be is one day ahead of them.

There are some whose Karma is such as to enable them to develop the purely spiritual faculties first of all -- to overleap the astral plane for the time, as it were; and when afterwards they make its acquaintance they have, if their spiritual development has been perfect, the immense advantage of dipping into it from above, with the aid of a spiritual insight which cannot be deceived and a spiritual strength which nothing can resist.

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.

The clairvoyant is simply a man who develops within himself the power to respond to another octave out of the stupendous gamut of possible vibrations, and so enables himself to see more of the world around him than those of more limited perception.

The ignorance we're ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.

The ability to know one's limitations, to recognize the bounds of one's own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12 We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers.

We don't do focus groups—that is the job of the designer," said Jony. "It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design."12

Both of them had this ability to—well, not invent products—but discover products. Both of them said these products have always existed, it's just that no one has ever seen them before. We were the ones who discovered them. The Polaroid camera always existed and the Macintosh always existed. It's a matter of discovery

A big definition of who you are as a designer, it's the way you look at the world

being excited about being wrong because that means you've discovered something new.