Quotes About Insight

Life and death played out before my very eyes. You don't see these things if you clean your room regularly.

I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

The past is only the future with the lights on

I write with my past, about the future, for the present

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past.

Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

People who are making decisions about the future often don't have access to some of the best ideas in the company, which may be at the periphery or at lower levels.

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

We read the future by the past.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

The people you listen to are a preview of the future you.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.