Quotes About Insight

Using intuitive intelligence alone is not enough. The concept or ideas that have been internally gathered by intuitive intelligence must still be analyzed, scrutinized and validated by using mental intelligence and actual experimentation.

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

If you want to know about Africa, read our literature -- and not just "Things Fall Apart," because that would be like saying, "I've read 'Gone with the Wind' and so I know everything about America."

Every field of knowledge is different, but they are all connected. And they often rhyme. This means that something in the way you describe your process may give me a crucial insight or catalyze a new thought in me. This is how ideas form when we spark off each other.

There's a value in that space - rent, overhead, staffing costs, etc. - that has to be paid back by a certain number of inventory turns per month. In other words, the onesies and twosies waste space. However, when that space doesn't cost anything, suddenly you can look at those infrequent sellers again, and they begin to have value. This was the insight that led to Amazon, Netflix, and all the other companies I was talking to.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.

You don't know what you don't know. That's why you don't have. Because to know and not to have is not to know.

To think that the wise are not capable of folly is not wise.

the experience of others becomes invaluable. It acts as a shortcut to bypass the long and painful process of trial and error. Indeed, all wise leaders learn from others, both contemporary and historical.

What really needs to be learned from other successful leaders is their thought processes, their reasons, their methods of emotional control, their strategies, their abilities in dealing with other people, their subtle touches.

Stupid is you can't learn, ignorant is you haven't learned yet.

You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future

We have our agreement about scars, I know, but this time I looked away because sometime you can see too much beauty.

He felt good for once, he really did. Maybe the deal was that life had to break your body down before you could see it. Maybe there wasn't any other racket in town except this one that brought you to your nadir and challenged you to build yourself back up from it, then showed you that what you'd done at least meant something to someone.

I was hoping my life might make more sense from a great height.

You are not bad people. You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future.

I don't know. We've never done anything, have we? We've no talent but conversation.

I realized I knew nothing about men apart from the fear.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.

Then he said if I ever want to see how something works, just look at it broken.

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.