Quotes About Insight

Yes, observing is one of my biggest assets," he said, "I always observe.

Some people are more forgiving when they understand a situation, while others become even more furious once they see the whole picture.

And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before?

Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.

He was realizing too late that old people weren't entirely stupid.

You see more sitting still than chasing after.

Did his soul change every time it achieved a new insight? The very definition of a soul was immutability. Perhaps the root of his confusion was the conflation of soul and knowledge. Perhaps the soul was one of those tools built to do exactly one specific task, to know that I am I, and was mutable with respect to all other forms of knowledge?

It seems not to occur to you that I might have had other very smart patients. The difference between them and me is that I'm a psychologist and they are not. I don't have to be as smart as you to help you. I only have to be smart about one thing.

And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight—isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before?

You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but then he said it with his eyes, and there were limits to correction—no way, in the end, to penetrate behind the blue irises and eradicate a boy's disgust.

it would have been better to have forced herself to see more of her parents in the critical years of her own parenthood, so as to better understand her kids' response to her.

Overindulgence had shattered his lambent rationality into myriad splinters, each consisting of an insight unrelated to any other, each brightly reflecting a star-hot whiteness now blazing in his stomach; he thought he might vomit.

Now that I'm blind, I can see there is nothing to see.

Google and Accurint can make you feel very smart, but the best stories come when you're out in the field.

They had the beauty of the second glance, the beauty that only revealed itself with intimacy.

People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

All the best paintings made you see various levels of reality at once. They sent you inward as well as outward.

The stumbling block will turn out to be the traditional one for students of consciousness: the flashlight is incapable of shining on itself, so we can't trust what its light reveals.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.

I gained an insight, a purloined-letter kind of thing.

Cultural listening is the skill of being able to see beyond the symptom to the underlying dynamic. It's an extremely powerful tool to develop as a leader, whether you're the CEO, a team leader, or a solopreneur just starting out.

To be a manager is to be part detective. The clues are everywhere, the skill is in reading them. When