Quotes About Insight

The biggest reason people don't succeed is because they don't expose themselves to existing information." - Jim Rohn, America's business philosopher

Go and see for yourself to thoroughly understand the situation (genchi genbutsu).

But there are times in the world where a stack of truth can be undone by one shining nugget of harder truth. I am not saying it makes sense to us outside those holding that nugget, only that when it's in your hand, you hold it and know it for what it is.

The gift of biblical wisdom, in other words, is not all about getting a privileged seat in God's traffic control tower of the world. We don't get to understand why things happen the way they do. We are mistaken if we think wisdom gives us that sort of insight.

Jeffrey N. Gingold

Leaders who have come up through the ranks and have done many if not most of the organization's jobs are much more likely to look out for the interests of those they lead because they have been there themselves.

When you know how to find a story – when you know what a story looks like and where they hide – you see them everywhere.

Consumers will tell you important stuff that you need to know if you shut up and listen.

Beauty might be the wisest royal of them all.

Even if we could memorize the map, it's hard to know where we're going without having seen inside ahead of time.

I lock eyes with Sasha and know, somehow, that she's thinking the same thing I am; This doesn't feel like an illusion. This feels real.

Don't be intimidated by successful makers; be inspired by them. Creativity doesn't divide but multiply, finding new expressions in everyone inspired by someone else's gift.

that. What do you think of __________? I hadn't thought of it in that way. Thank you for that angle. Let me think about that a bit before I respond. Thanks for your transparency.

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.

You can hear something over and over and over and over and over and still not really hear it. It does not click. No lo comprendo. Until you're ready to hear it. And then it is defeaning.

When you don't investigate what's going on with your words, thoughts, and beliefs, you risk stumbling through life on autopilot.

An epiphany is a visceral understanding of something you already know.

It made me think of the way so many of us live our lives. We can see what we want, and nearly kill ourselves trying to get it in a way that's not working. Meanwhile, if we just stopped, got quiet for a minute or two, and looked at things a little differently, we'd notice the door to what we want being held open for us by the nice lady in the bathrobe across the room. Then all we'd have to do is fly through it.

Sometimes it's easier for other people to see what we can't see ourselves, so if they can help us connect with our truths and live happier, more authentic lives, then it's worth taking the time to listen.

You have all the answers inside of you

you receive the great gift of being enlightened to some of your own not-so-special traits so you can grow and learn from them

As the poet William Blake so eloquently stated: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

no matter how much we "know," there are always more sides to the story

Just that ever since I was very little I'd had this--affliction, or gift, or whatever you want to call it; that I have visions. And that this is something I accept about myself as part of who I am, a scary part sometimes , but also the best part of me because it makes me who I am, you know? It helps me understand things.