Quotes About Insight

Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is.

Given how inexpensive technology and analytics have become, it's inexcusable for any business not to know every customer

What we don't get as easily is that when we tap into our personal experience, the most vivid collection of life data at our disposal, we're relying on a similarly small sample size to draw conclusions.

Sometimes there are truths in fiction. In fantasy. Sometimes made-up stories tell us more about who we are than reality.

It was one of those ideas that doesn't sound stupid until someone says it out loud.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

Fiction has the ability to show us what we don't know and what doesn't happen.

nadie sabe nada a lo que no ha asistido

Lo pasábamos bien juntos, pese a las brumas y las humaredas en que vivíamos envueltos. Pese a mi visión tan reducida, pese a todo. Era como si asistiera a su vida con sólo un ojo, el otro tuerto.

No he querido saber, pero he sabido […]

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

Managing truth triggers is not about pretending there's something to learn, or saying you think it's right if you think it's wrong. It's about recognizing that it's always more complicated than it appears and working hard to first understand. And even if you decide that 90 percent of the feedback is off target, that last golden 10 percent might be just the insight you need to grow.

Tell me more" and "Help me understand better . . .

It is said that all advice is autobiographical

we don't know what we don't know.

the normal course of things, we don't notice the ways in which our story of the world is different from

Creating pull is about mastering the skills required to drive our own learning; it's about how to recognize and manage our resistance, how to engage in feedback conversations with confidence and curiosity, and even when the feedback seems wrong, how to find insight that might help us grow.

We Notice Different Things.

Contribution Is About Understanding, and Looks Forward

Dr. David Jeremiah

La sensación de familiaridad que irradia un verdadero líder resulta de la capacidad que este posee de incorporar en su experiencia personal la experiencia de la especie. Esta incorporación resulta de la identidad de la conciencia del líder con la conciencia del hipercampo.

Knowledge is power, Bane. My purpose is to give you that knowledge. It is up to you to figure out how best to use it.

Photographers tend not to photograph what they can't see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we're going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see