Quotes About Insight

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers

my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right.

It's dangerous to write about what you don't know, I said. Ledare got up to go and said, It's dangerous not to.

The lack of diversity is harmful to the vitality of a healthy team ecosystem—the climate needed to engender creativity and insight. For it is the diversity of experiences, perspectives, and skills that introduces increased quantities of creative solutions.

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

Everything is sorrow for the wise.

I saw a man once leap into a pit to see how deep it was, he commented. But no doubt you are wiser.

Like water, tales find their own paths; they go where they are needed.

She realized something then that made her stumble a step. All along her way, there had been candles lit, random and unobtrusive. Had she, she wondered in that instant, simply chosen the path that she could best see? Or was someone ahead anticipating her, lighting candles to guide her way?

She closed her eyes, felt a long breath ease out of her, and realized then how much knowledge could weigh until it was shared.

Jamie likes to talk to people. He wants to know them and what they think. He believes that accurate information is essential for everyone: investors, employees, newspaper reporters.

Writing is a way of organizing experience and life itself.

The way to see the world was to see it drunk. Everything was created to be seen drunk.

Every failure teaches something. 12

I have found from costly experience that it is much easier to analyze the facts after writing them down. In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us reach a sensible decision. As Charles Kettering puts it: "A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

The Mind in the Making.

Remember what Emerson said: "Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him." And

Science," said the French philosopher Valéry, "is a collection of successful recipes.

As a leader, you will gain a more complete picture of their work and become a better coach and mentor for it.

It taught Carnegie a lesson he never forgot.

Não é possível ensinar qualquer coisa a um homem. Só é possível ajudá-lo a descobri-la dentro de si.

Seja mais sábio do que os outros se puder, mas não avise a ninguém.