Quotes About Insight

Act before it becomes impossible to disentangle one strand of misery from another, or to see how the whole thing started.

It is occasionally used to imitate the court jester, who plays the fool but knows he is smarter than the king. He talks and talks and entertains, and no one suspects that he is more than just a fool.

The real purpose of the backward-glancing eye is to educate yourself constantly—you look at the past to learn from those who came before you.

In your thinking, learn to blend the analytical with the intuitive in order to become more creative.

People are of infinite complexity and you can spend a lifetime watching them without ever fully understanding them

Everything you see or hear is a sign for you to decode.

Avoid the False Path At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. —Lao Tzu

This is because creative people are actually looking at what is hidden in plain sight, and not rushing to generalize and label. Whether such powers are natural or learned does not matter: the mind can be trained to loosen itself up and move outside the grooves.

If you work hard, you will make your way to the inner circle of knowledge. That is the end goal of mastery: an inside-out understanding.

The ability to measure people and to know who you're dealing with is the most important skill of all in gathering and conserving power. Without it you are blind:

The Laws of Human Nature, 16: See the Hostility Behind the Friendly Façade—The Law of Aggression

Perspective comes with time.

Pero la fuente primaria de la inteligencia humana es el desarrollo de las neuronas espejo (ver aquí), lo que nos concede la aptitud de ponernos en los zapatos de otro e imaginar su experiencia.

A través de una exposición continua a la gente y tratando de pensar dentro de ella podemos obtener una sensación creciente de su perspectiva, pero esto requiere un esfuerzo de nuestra parte.

There are very few men—and they are the exceptions—who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment.

It is occasionally wiser to imitate the court jester, who plays the fool but knows he is smarter than the king.

People are more complex than you imagine. Your goal is to simply see their point of view better. As you go through this process, it becomes like a muscle that gets stronger the more you exercise it.

As Bismarck once said, "Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others' experience.

Y la mejor manera de encontrar las debilidades del jefe no es por medio de espías, sino de un fuerte abrazo. Detras de una fachada amigable, aun servil, puedes observar a tus enemigos, lograr que se sinceren y delaten. Llega a lo más hondo; piensa como ellos. Una vez que descubras su vulnerabilidad —

Second, the Laws will make you a master interpreter of the cues that people continually emit, giving you a much greater ability to judge their character.

If people are essentially lazy or foolish, they leave clues to this in the smallest of details that you can pick up well before their behavior harms you.

There is much to be known, life is short, and life is not life without knowledge. It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody. Thus, by the sweat of another's brow, you win the reputation of being an oracle. (Baltasar Gracián, 1601-1658)

Daily Law: Examine the faults you see in others and how they are in you as well.

La mayoría somos de- masiado  obvios; tú sé difícil de entender.