Quotes About Insight

A know-it-all who doesn't know what he is talking about is a jerk. A know-it-all who does know what he is talking about is just an ass.

An irrational person's M.O. is a weapon. However, it's also a weakness because if you can figure out the person's M.O., you can turn this information to your advantage.

identifying an irrational person's M.O. gives you considerable power over him.

you probably know a lot less than you think you do about the people you want to reach, whether they're new in your life or people you've known forever. That what you think you know may be very wrong. And that reaching these people doesn't just mean opening their minds to you. It also means rewiring yourself so you can see these people as they really are.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. —BILL GATES, MICROSOFT CHAIRMAN

What people say and do in the most innocent situations can speak volumes about their real selves.

Yet it is your insight into people that gives you the ability to predict the future

believe you can learn almost everything you need to know—and more than other people would like you to know—simply by watching and listening, keeping your eyes peeled, your ears open. And your mouth closed.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

Some people speak a lot, but have very little to say. Some people speak very little, but have very much to say.

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven't seen.

While it is certainly true that Revelation looks ahead and reveals the future, it also looks back and brings together all the threads running through the first 65 books of the Bible.

the past is only the future with the lights on.

What customers say they want is often different from what they actually want.

Subcreation is not just a desire, but a need and a right; it renews our vision and gives us new perspective and insight into ontological questions that might otherwise escape our notice within the default assumptions we make about reality.

Of course," Lobo said. "It's not like this is my first dance, and it's not as if you've cornered the market on paranoia.

Hindsight's perfect vision is seldom clouded by context

To find meaning and truth in life place a blindfold on and observe your surroundings, you may find it right in front of you."-Mark Miller

Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.

The brutality of the world lay beyond my understanding.

On every long run that has gone right, there comes a point where thinking stops and thoughts begin.