Quotes About Insight

We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

Everybody has their story to tell.

Affected most, they understand the least...

Escribir puede ser exigente, pero los momentos de progreso compensan de sobra. Cuando creamos, siento que estamos a sólo un milímetro de lo divino.

Windows are for people with no imagination.

I've had years to see the funny side.

Of course not. It's only funny when it happens to other people. I'd have thought that was obvious.

Remember, when you're reading your Bible, your Bible is also reading you." It is a two-way transaction.

Initially [my favorite books] seem to immerse me in another life, but ultimately they immerse me in me; I am looking through the window into another person's home, but it is my face that I see in the reflection.

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody thinks you are wrong

Imitating recent successes is a game that everybody knows how to play. But seeing the next big thing before anybody else sees it is far more valuable... It means being a little bit wrong at just the right time.

First, understand how people behave; second, build products that match their habits.

A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that's all. Then they have to write.

Schopenhauer wrote, 'Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

My techniques are concerned with reading signals from people, tiny unconscious clues that betray their thoughts. I tend to see it like a game...

To see things as they really are, you must imagine them for what they might be.

Do you ever have those moments where suddenly you make a quantum jump in understanding, where you see the world so differently that you cannot imagine how you could have perceived it any other way before? Do you have those times when this new understanding makes you feel as though up until that moment you must have been deluded or asleep or just plain stupid? I

a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into how people think and act.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Vivir sin filosofar es, propiamente, tener los ojos cerrados, sin tratar de abrirlos jamás" (René Descartes)

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

We learn from history that we don't learn from history!