Quotes About Insight

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

My sixth sense uses the other five senses to communicate. I may have a vision, hear a sound, get a smell, or have a physical sensation that corresponds with how someone passed. What I do revolves around noticing subtle differences in my mind and body - because they're messages.

Rahul Gandhi himself doesn't have any vision or the political acumen to be able to differentiate between sycophancy and sincere advice.

I sometimes forget that my vision of the world is not remotely anyone else's.

As a director, I love being able to really be a contributing factor to the overall vision of a project.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?

I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

There's just no vision. You have no ground, no vision.

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

There are two qualities that I've noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone's opinion and still remember their vision.

I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.

A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn't come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they're going to be tomorrow.

Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.

Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

I don't see myself as a visionary at all.

How could you look at CM Punk and not think that he has the 'it' factor? I don't think I'm any great visionary or genius because I saw something in CM Punk; I think everyone else is a stupid schmuck for not seeing it in CM Punk.

People with visions should go to the doctor.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Flannery O'Connor quote: "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.