Quotes About Insight

Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.

I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.

The best wisdom comes from the hardest struggle.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.

When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.

All the time I had my success, I didn't know what I was doing. I struggled and struggled and hacked things out without any insight as to why.

I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.

People-watching is my favorite thing to do. This is blowing my mind. I fixate on one person, and then I think about the struggles in their life. I think about what made them walk the way they do.

I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

I learned a lot from Cherry Jones, from the questions she asked and the opinions she had.

I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.

It helps to be able to see things before your opponent. In futsal, you have less time to think so make decisions faster than most. You know what is coming. It may not always work, but an understanding is generated through futsal.

I learn from each match that I have, especially when it's a different opponent.

Knowing your opponent is fundamental. Because then you can know their characteristics better.

Sometimes the purpose of our opponents is to be our teachers.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

People see things in the opposite way that I do. There are places that spirit, soul and emotion reach.

Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.

Thanks to technology, you can sit and see the opposition's mistakes and try to learn from them.

Because I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

I mean, I'm always optimistic about most things I do and never bank my hopes on anything, but I got what 'Take Me Out' was right from the word go.