Quotes About Insight

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

Listen very carefully to the first criticisms of your work. Note just what it is about your work that the reviewers don't like; it may be the only thing in your work that is original and worthwhile.

Sentir antes de comprender.

Listen carefully to first criticisms of your work. Note just what it is about your work that the critics don't like—then cultivate it. That's the part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

I will explain myself; but this will be to take the most useless, most superfluous precaution; for everything that I will tell you could only be understood by those who do not need to be told

that which is subtle can be more powerful.

You must learn to understand with your heart and mind, not your eyes and ears, then you will know.

It may be a stone you have never seen before or a root with a special shape that has meaning for you. You must learn to understand with your heart and mind, not your eyes and ears, then you will know.

En ocasiones las mujeres que no son perfectas resultan más interesantes; han hecho más o han aprendido algo.

The trouble with adults is that they never believe kids can do something even when they have good ideas.

He pensado lo siguiente: para que el suceso más trivial se convierta en aventura, es necesario y suficiente contarlo.

To do?wiadczenie zawodowe: lekarze, ksi??a, urz?dnicy i oficerowie znaj? si? na cz?owieku tak, jakby go stworzyli.

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.

Je ne savais bien comprendre que le témoignage de mes propres yeux.

I got to the end of the story before I'd realized what she'd done. Just as Jake had waited, interviewing the Mariners, Jillian had waited out my first answers so that I would give her a better one.

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.

Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.

I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.

There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'.

What we notice in stories is the nearness of the wound to the gift.

My mother has often been labelled as strange but that's because she says things that people can't possibly believe. Mostly she's right.