Quotes About Insight

Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

Stereotypes are convenient. And yet within them, everyone will say there's something that - you know, they don't come for no reason. It's just that it takes time to explore complexity.

Howard Stern was the only one that was able to get through to me.

The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.

I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.

I see something happening in the world, and I want to share it. It's why, during 9/11, I wrote every few minutes what I saw happening. It's why I write about meeting Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates or Larry Page.

Until his dying days, Steve Jobs could not only predict the direction the marketplace would be heading, but help drive it there.

I worked closely with Steve Jobs for twenty-six years. To this day, for all that has been written about him, I don't believe that any of it comes close to capturing the man I knew.

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

And I have to say, for the record, my favorite line from 'Without A Clue' is after Michael Caine pokes a dead body with a stick and announces to everyone, 'It is my opinion that this man is dead.'

I co-wrote and produced 'Sticky Fingers' with Catlin Adams, who directed it. I learned a lot writing and producing with Cat. I spent as much time as I could in the cutting room with her. All the producing experience that I had helped.

I am still learning.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

I received more genuine religious stimulation in prison than in the seminary.

Being aware of challenges doesn't make them sting less, but once you see them, you can assess the best way to handle them.

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

Buying only what you know can end in disaster. Just think about Enron's employees and business partners, the 'locals' who bought lots of its stock because they thought they were in the know.

We're like the stock exchange - we know everything that's happening in the family. Since our kids are in the same profession, we all know how they're placed.

I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.