Quotes About Insight

Feedback—both the act of giving it and taking it—is our first step in becoming smarter, more mindful about the connection between our environment and our behavior. Feedback teaches us to see our environment as a triggering mechanism. In some cases, the feedback itself is the trigger.

Effective leaders know this intuitively. They know who on their team can be left alone and who needs more direction. Other strong leaders learn it through observation and trial and error.

Not all of us require a violent life-threatening knock on the head to change our behavior. It only seems that way.

a wise person learns from their mistakes—a much wiser person learns from someone else's mistakes.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

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

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

I am an intellectual thug who has been slowly accumulating a private arsenal with every intention of using it. In a mindless age every insight takes on the character of a lethal weapon. Every man of good will is the enemy of society.

While Emily's verse always drew from more than the literal details of her life, impaired vision made her rely on her imagination even more. If she could not see distinctly or at all, she would have to tap into her metaphorical reserve. She may have found that imagination gave her a richer sense of perception than what she could discern from her eyes.

Yep. I'm officially convinced. Crazy and brilliant are the same thing.

travel is compost for the mind

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

There was a huge difference between knowing something happened and seeing the reality of it.

I know a "fuck off" when I hear one. So I fucked off.