Quotes About Insight

las personas muy inteligentes pueden hacer cosas muy estúpidas.

A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.

Una de las características principales de la autoconciencia es un sentido del humor autocrítico.

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Projection ignores the other person's inner reality: when we are projecting, we assume the other feels and thinks as we do.

El pensamiento profundo requiere de una mente concentrada.

Por ello decimos que el líder desconectado de su mundo interno carece de timón, el indiferente a los sistemas mayores en los que se mueve está perdido, y el inconsciente ante el mundo interpersonal está ciego.

And wisdom to know the difference.

complexity—to reason—plummeted.

Muchos grandes encestadores de baloncesto, como Hank Aaron, por ejemplo, visionan una y otra vez vídeos de los pívots del equipo al que están a punto de enfrentarse para descubrir, en el juego de sus adversarios, indicios que pueden resultarle de alguna utilidad.

O pensamento profundo exige a sustentação de uma mente focada. Quanto mais distraídos estivermos, mais superficiais serão as nossas reflexões; de igual modo, quanto mais curtas forem, maior probabilidade terão de ser triviais.

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

Ed, así éramos nosotros, Al y yo. Nunca lo entendiste y yo nunca te conté realmente cómo funcionaba. La madre de Al nos comparó una vez con un viejo matrimonio y se rió cuando Al dijo:Bueno, mamma, tú debes de saberlo.

I know all these facts about you and there is no longer any use for them.

I gave you an adventure, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you and that's why we broke up.- Min, Why We Broke Up

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head.

we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.

Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it.

It was as if I had been looking at the whole thing clearly on the blackboard of my mind, but when I turned to read it, part of it had been erased and the rest didn't make sense.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

I've got to work out the rule. If I can find that out, and if it adds even one jot of information to whatever else has been discovered about mental retardation and the possibility of helping others like myself, I will be satisfied. Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born.

People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem—they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples.