Quotes About Insight

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

History should be written as philosophy.

Common sense is not so common.

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

All time spent reading is time well-spent.

Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people.

Simply put, there is no substitute for meeting and listening to dissatisfied customers directly.

To tip the cognitive hurdle fast, tipping point leaders such as Bratton zoom in on the act of disproportionate influence: making people see and experience harsh reality firsthand.

To reach your organization's tipping point and execute blue ocean strategy, you must alert employees to the need for a strategic shift and identify how it can be achieved with limited resources. For a new strategy to become a movement, people must not only recognize what needs to be done, but they must also act on that insight in a sustained and meaningful way. How

A company should never outsource its eyes. There is simply no substitute for seeing for yourself. Great artists don't paint from other people's descriptions or even from photographs; they like to see the subject for themselves. The same is true for great strategists.

Don't rely on market surveys.

But you must have knowledge and know-how to interpret the meaning of what you observe

Almost anything can be found in a book.

You and Psychiatry. (You and Psychiatry, Menninger and Leaf, Scribner's, New York, 1948)

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

To manage, one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for.

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.