Quotes About Insight

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

Always desire to learn something useful

The fish will be the last to discover water.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

Life is a mirror that magnifies. What we see 'out there' is only a duplication of what we are inside.

Think about how backstory fits the tale you're trying to tell... p.195

then in that moment that I'd begun to love him. Because he didn't see the world like I saw the world. He didn't see the traps. Because he made me rethink even simple words like disgusting or beautiful.

What can you do when your five senses are not enough? Because I still couldn't truly see it here, any more than I had seen it under the microscope, and that's what scared me the most. Why couldn't I see it?

Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye but not notice the log in your own eye?

Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It

What can you do when your five senses are not enough?

When you are too close to the center of a mystery there is no way to pull back and see the shape of it entire.

Writing fiction is like doing a jigsaw puzzle with all the pieces turned upside down.

Take Time To Think

If they were expected," she shot back, "then they wouldn't be breakthroughs, now would they?

I also think that human behavior is so mysterious and unpredictable that if you are not humble about it you are bound to be insensitive to a lot of the dilemmas and predicaments that people are facing.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see," which I interpret to mean that looking way back into the past provides much better perspective into the enduring patterns of history. I'd

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

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