Quotes About Insight

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

I'd recognized it only recently. I wasn't sure if it was because she had changed or I had, but it didn't really matter. I recognized it just the same... If you just noticed the shiny veneer on the outside, they'd always look perfect. So you had to peer closer, watch them when they didn't think they were being watched. Eventually, you'd notice the dings.

Allison Winn Scotch

Somebody knows.

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.

She watched him stop to pat the mayor on the back. He stumbled a little in the crowd, and his left hand disappeared ever so briefly inside the mayor's tuxedo pocket. It was over in a flash, a blink, a second. And Macey was quite certain she was the only person in the entire room to have seen it, but that was just as well. At least, Macey had seen enough. And at last, the boy made sense." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

I knew she was right. Of course she was right. Bex was always right. She knew me better than I knew myself. But then again, isn't that a best friend's job?

I've thrown enough punches in my life to know when someone is hurting.

You were the only one who looked at me and didn't see her

My parents think so. And my parents have a very annoying habit of being right

It's simple: just give the eyes something new to look at so that the mind doesn't truly see.

watched the people I know best look at me like I was a crazy person. Trust me. It's a look I know pretty well.

You think you're cute," she told him. "You think you're gorgeous. But I'm the one guy here who knows better.

Don't let the glitter fool you." She wiggles her shiny nails in the air, then taps her temple. "I'm up here." … "How did you…?" "Mymom is the chief operations officer for the CIA stationed in Europe," she tells me. "I pay attention." "I see that," I say.

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Maybe Justin, my students, spoiled me for people my own age, usually so boring, talking about their endless health problems, pros/cons of being cremated, not realizing they're already dead in the most tragic way.

planeta hace varios milenios. Piénsalo y te darás cuenta de que tengo razón.

Es de los demás de los que hay que tener miedo, de los que te dejan adivinar hacia qué lado están mirando. Ésos son los que siempre miran en la dirección contraria a la que tú te imaginas.