Quotes About Insight

we all need a personal theory of what makes people tick. To

He looked for ways in which new ideas could come into being via spontaneous insight rather than conflict.

What is humor, de Bono asks, but the sudden restructuring of existing patterns? If

It is characteristic of insight solutions and new ideas that they should be obvious after they have been found.

If you know a person's personality type their behavior begins to make sense.

Before turning his mind to creativity, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced Chick-sent-me-hi) wrote a celebrated book called Flow. Its insight was that it is a mistake to pursue happiness itself. Rather, we should recognize when we are genuinely happy—what we are doing when we feel powerful and "true"—and do more of those things. Flow

The common route to this knowledge is life experience

Csikszentmihalyi suggests that the common idea of a creative individual coming up with great insights, discoveries, works, or inventions in isolation is wrong. Creativity results from a complex interaction between a person and their environment or culture, and also depends on timing.

Creative people take their intuition seriously, looking for patterns where others see confusion, and are able to make connections between discrete areas of knowledge.

Wehehehehell, if it isn't Ollie-Ollie-oxidant-free..." You can take…all the tea in China…put it in a big brown…bag for me. He's as sweet as tupelo honey; he's an angel of the first degree. Men with insight…men in granite…knights in armor bent on…chivalry. He's as sweet as…tupelo honey; just like honey, baby…from the bee." => For those who read and liked "When Irish eyes are sparkling" Can i have a musician here?

What seems obvious to one person wouldn't occur to another. Your perspective is hard coded into the work that you create.

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

I think I was born with a natural way of looking at something and trying to find the ways in which it was odd or funny, Even in the sad or angry stuff, I was, 'Well, but where is the funny part of this?'

I find men odd. I don't really understand men. I kind of feel like I understand women better than I do men, really.

I learn new things about what 'The Room' does wrong or oddly every time I see it with a crowd.

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

I like to draw from experiences in my past, but that alone is quite hard and complicated, because I don't want to say anything incriminating or too offensive, but I want to give people an insight into my life and how it was.

I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.