Quotes About Insight

My mother once told me that you really know someone when you know their parents.

David Foster Wallace: There's so much beauty and profundity in all kinds of shitty pop culture all around us.

The way to finish the book is to turn down the volume on the stuff that's all about how other people react.

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together.

Ideas are like fish. You don't make the fish, you catch the fish.

Darwin hat a wonderful scientific habit of noticing facts that seemed inconsistent with his theories.

Little by little, new facts become blurred through old glasses fitted, as it were, for the needs of another generation; older men, assuming that the scene is the same as it was in the past, cease to explore or inquire into the present or the future."7

That's the second time you've presumed to know my thoughts and been wrong about it.

One hour of going to see things with your own eyes is more worthwhile than twenty hours of talking about things.

Inside of us, but out of awareness, is the truth that "I already know everything I need to know.

People don't want to calm down because then they see things they sort of knew but didn't want to face.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call understanding is basically just fantasizing.

David Sedaris

And there's no point in me doing anything if I can't write about it," I continued. "It would be like . . . walking ten miles without my Fitbit on—a complete waste. I mean, I do do things I don't write about: I use the bathroom, I have sex, but I try to be quick about it.

If he thinks we're bad, he should spend more time with Lisa." "That's true," I agreed. "Lisa's the master. I left her at a Starbucks for ninety seconds last year, and when I returned the woman behind the counter was saying to her, 'My gynecologist told me that exact same thing.

When I bleat here on page seventeen, do you want me to just bleat or to really let go and 'bleat, bleat'? " I asked. "I feel like 'bleat, bleating,' but if Mother/Destroyer is going to be crawling through the birth canal of concertina wire, I don't want to steal focus, you know what I mean?" He did. That was the scary part, that someone understood me.

And there's no point in me doing anything if I can't write about it," I continued. "It would be like . . . walking ten miles without my Fitbit on—a complete waste. I mean, I do do things I don't write about: I use the bathroom, I have sex, but I try to be quick about it.

I began experimenting with visualizing the rising sun coming up in people's chests as I talked with them. It began to transform my listening.

The board reveals all: Upon its acetate is writ the story of past and present. Who

Desde los doce años tengo la vista cansada, cansada de ver tanta estupidez alrededor

there was an almost terrifying lack of intelligence in his eyes.

need for you to infect him, since he already had a good sense