Quotes About Insight

It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.

the most effective problem-finders become adept at searching for and identifying patterns.

the case method typically presents the problem to the student. It describes the situation facing a firm and then frames the decision that must be made. In real life, according to McNamara, the leader first must discover the problem.

refine your ability to "connect the dots" among seemingly disparate pieces of information. Threats do not come to us in neat little packages.

The best problem-finders demonstrate intellectual curiosity, embrace systemic thinking, and exhibit a healthy dose of paranoia.

view any failure, no matter how small, as a window on the system as a whole.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem." —G. K. Chesterton

Write the book description in third person and present tense. As if you're sitting face-to-face with a browser who just asked you what the book is about.

History is not just a flat chronicle of events. History is an understanding of the forces that work, the values that shape present action and direct the future. If you have that knowledge, you are empowered in ways that you can't get by watching the nightly news or reading the morning editorials. We live in an ahistorical age when many people's memories go back to breakfast, but if you're armed with that insight you have immense power for good.

The pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.

It is difficult to think outside the box because the thinking IS the box.

The aim of theory is not to be boringly right but brilliantly wrong.

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

She'd spent enough time trying to read the tea leaves of his heart.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.

He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and profound than you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more good and more harm in the world than you've ever imagined--it is all but impossible not to believe, at least in his presence and a while after you've left him, that he alone sees through your essence, weighs your true qualities . . . and appreciates you more fully than anyone else ever has.

Man projects his wounds upon the world, my friend. He judges everything, and in the judging he reveals himself.

A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.

Old G.K. knew when to fast and when to down a good ale. It's the timing. It's all in the timing. [On G.K. Chesterton]

un hombre que ama puede ver cosas que los demás no ven. La fe abre puertas.

Nothing's ordinary when you really look at it.

He is interested not so much in imparting information as implanting in us the tools of awareness.

I don't mean to be critical, but you have been away from civilization for quite a long time. One's perspectives can narrow.