Quotes About Insight

Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

This was the story of her life. Men explained things to her that she not only knew, but knew far more about.

El saber fue, por mucho tiempo, nuestra mayor y más compartida pasión.

Do kraja života upoznava?u ljude, a nikada ih upoznati ne?u. Uvijek ?e me zbunjivati neobjašnjivoš?u postupaka

Žena zna, žene uvijek znaju, makar ništa ne bilo re?eno, i prije ?e pomisliti da jest nego da nije.

I had been generalizing about the world so much that I began to lose my grasp of it.

Druge koristi nema, ni štete, ni od poraza ni od pobjede. Jer, ko je ikada ostao pametan poslije pobjede? A ko je izvukao iskustvo iz poraza? Niko. Ljudi su zla djeca, zla po ?inu, djeca po pameti. I nikad ne?e biti druga?iji.

Complexity is a sign of intelligence. Simplicity is a sign of wisdom

Contrary to popular belief, transformation cannot be based on a single event, advice, book, or seminar. These things may lead to a new insight or even a temporary change, however, real transformation requires the formation of new thinking patterns and behavioral habits. Transformation requires consistent action and time to reinforce new learned values and drop old ones. Once the process of transformation is completed, it will change who you are, your life and the lives of the people around you.

The featureless trundle of my existence began to change. At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little it takes to turn a person's life around for better or worse. An event will do, or an idea. Another person. An idea of a person

Someday I'll understand more of these things. At the moment I just have to think them through. Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.

A veces veo cosas que no puedo entender. Como personas que sonríen cogidas de la mano cuando en realidad se odian. Es algo que me desconcierta, y Gil dice que es porque sin duda es desconcertante. Es lo mismo que ser traductor. Hay cosas que no se pueden traducir porque las palabras no existen en el otro idioma, o el significado es tan específico de un lugar o un modo de hablar que desaparece en la traducción. Pero a veces hay pistas.

Miro una imagen y veo las cosas que no están a la vista en ese momento. No es que sea una especie de mística, simplemente veo una constelación de hechos minúsculos que son demasiado pequeños para que la gente se fije en ellos. No detecto cada elemento en concreto de la constelación, pero la impresión general está clara. El Oso. El Cazador. El Cisne.

he knew the answers to questions you hadn't even got around to asking yet.

We're talking about the novel, right? But maybe we're not. We're talking about ourselves. And I guess that's what can start to happen when you talk about a book.

Maybe that was what it was like to be a writer: Even with the eyes closed, you could see.

to find out what another human being feels, a person who isn't you; to get a look under the hood, so to speak. A deep look inside. That's what writing is supposed to do.

sometimes a mindfuck was a satisfying and productive fuck after all.

When you looked closely at anything, you could almost faint, Jules thought, although you had to look closely if you wanted to have any knowledge at all in life.

Power structures were always fairly easy to figure out if you took a moment to observe the people involved.

Even when I can't relate on a personal level, she makes me know what she feels, and that's really something. To find out what another human being feels, a person who isn't you; to get a look under the hood, so to speak. A deep look inside. That's what writing is supposed to do.

But maybe in life, she thought later, there are not only moments of strangeness but moments of knowledge, which don't appear at the time as knowledge at all