Quotes About Insight

Just be aware that rational answers aren't necessarily what we're looking for when we produce our questions.

The management theorist Tom Peters said, "Purpose rarely comes from sitting down and contemplating purpose. Mostly, surely in my case, one accidentally trips over purpose." It's not built in a lab; it develops as a natural by-product of working with thoughtful observation [...].

Devote some time to defining your learning agenda as early as possible, and return to it periodically to refine and supplement it. Efficient learning means identifying the best available sources of insight and then figuring out how to extract maximum insight with the least possible outlay of time.

This is one of the principal reasons people seek out spiritual teachers. They figure there is more to most things than meets the eye.

Intuition is not a special source of ineffable insight: it is the womb of articulated understanding.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

Do not refer to your toy-books, and say you have seen that before. Answer me rather, if I ask you, have you understood it before?

Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man

Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...

Solitude bestows an increase in something valuable. I can't dismiss that idea. Solitude increased my perception. But here's

Each man sees what his own experience has taught him.

He was a man of great depth but of limited breadth, so that while he knew very little, he knew a great deal about it.

Aptal, bilge oldu?unu zanneder ama bilge, aptal oldu?unu bilir." - Shakespeare

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

We know nothing worth knowing about what goes on outside our frontiers. Worse-we know very little more about what goes on within them. Beyond the light of one's own personal experience-darkness. What are people thinking? What are they feeling? How do they behave? Messages of reassurance or exhortation come through. One reads between the lines. Friends pool their knowledge. But in general we live like animals, in ignorance of the world around us.

The natural tendency of man is to remain unconscious.

Only after a person has their heart broken does the world appear as it truly is.

Knowledge is the wisdom of one passing on the accumulation of their experience to others.

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance.

if salespeople want to sell value and differentiate their product, they have to deliver insight that will reframe the buying vision so buyers end up with the solution that helps them overcome their challenges and achieve their goals.

For most of my life, I've always been the youngest one at the table, and it's something I've come to expect, maybe take for granted.

when we have cultivated a healthy space within, we can hear, see and feel our intuition more clearly.

Before they can know what they need, they need to know who they are. This is one of Belichick's core philosophies, and it is why he was sitting in this Gillette Stadium room with a binder, notebook, pens, and pages of football statistics.