Quotes About Insight

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When you begin to thirst for knowledge, you drink it in. You need not go out for it, nor away. The ocean of it surrounds us as the atmosphere.

I recommend keeping a diary. Diaries are cool.

We contain more than our understanding allows us, at a given moment, to understand.

Appearances, Darren, she said. Never let them fool you.

I don't want to brag about how dumb I am, but this job is plain as astronomy to me. I understand everything about it except what you have done and why, and what you're trying to do and how.

looking at Spade with cobalt-blue eyes that were both shy and probing.

I see', said Smee, still not seeing.

ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

Revelation is everything, not for its own sake, because most self-revelation is just garbage—oop!—yes, but we have to purge the garbage, toss it out, throw it into a bunker and burn it, because it is fuel.

To be described is to be seduced. Shit. One turn of phrase. One thing noticed that she'd never noticed. It works always.

Don't flatter yourself to think this is your doing. Your problem is that you think things have happened for the first time to you, and that you're the fulcrum from which all people and the current world pivot.

What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone's library is like peeking into their DNA.

Once a profound truth is seen, it cannot be un seen.

As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. —Ralph Waldo Emerson Used

More often than not, it seems that people are having thoughts, though not really thinking about what they're thinking about—at least not in an effective way that resolves, advances, or manages the content.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. —Peter F.

If you're waiting to have a good idea before you have any ideas, you won't have many.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. —Peter F. Drucker

What's a good idea?" is a good question, but only when you're about 80 percent of the way through your thinking! Starting there would probably blow anyone's creative mental fuses.

Trusting yourself and the source of your intelligence is the most elegant lesson of experiencing freedom and manifesting personal productivity.

T]he last thing a fish notices is water.