Quotes About Insight

Dogs speak words, but only poets and children Hear.

I must have intuitively known even then, though, that if you ask a certain type of guy about himself, it's as good as winding a wind-up toy.

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

A person who is headstrong enough to open their eyes and their heart to the full depth and weight of the world is inviting in everything out there - both evil and good, both dark and light, and the sheer bravery of that openness enables them to gain profound insight into the human condition. It also fucks them up. It may even make them more prone to stick their head in an oven than to engage in self-promotional chitchat on Jay Leno.

When you help folks solve their problems, don't be surprised if you solve your own.

Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are...that's the world, isn't it? You have to keep looking to find the truth.

And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are.

The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes," said Marcel Proust.

You can see a lot of the world from a curb.

There is more to see than we have been permitted; there are heavens unseen behind the heavens of our perception.

But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.

Their eyes had seen so much that they no longer distinguished between dream and reality. And they had so few illusions they were through asking questions of anyone, even of themselves.

and they don't have to know about a lot of things that ordinary mortals just don't have to know about!

He is like a traveler who looks left and right but doesn't think to look behind or above him. Men like that get eaten by cougars.

I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist," said journalist Clare Boothe Luce, "is that the pessimist is usually better informed.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

This will force you to dig deep, exercise your creative half, and find the positive insight in any topic that arises.

Emotional intelligence is knowing and perceiving the emotions you feel and why you feel them. You are able to put a label on your emotional state and find its cause and effect. By extension, emotional intelligence is being able to read other people's emotions accurately and deduce the reasons for them.

When you start thinking, "Why did she say that?" and "What made him do that?" instead of immediately reacting, that's the beginning of your path to emotional intelligence.

Step out of your own head, and look at the world based on what's important to others.

Knowing yourself is probably the hardest job in the world.