Quotes About Insight

What you "learn" from Steve Jobs tells more about yourself than about him!

And sometimes—if you are observant and patient—being invisible gives you access to information that can help you turn the tables on powerful assholes.

the key to self-awareness isn't found inside our heads; it's in discovering and accepting how others see us—even when it hurts.

William Coyne, former head of research and development at 3M, tells how a human resource manager once threatened to fire a scientist who was asleep under his bench. Coyne took the HR manager to 3M's "Wall of Patents" to show him that the sleeping scientist had developed some of 3M's most profitable products. Coyne advised, "Next time you see him asleep, get him a pillow."3 Unfortunately, not all executives are so wise.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

We seldom see these things in ourselves until we have a reason to look. We are probably all like the heroes we had when we were boys.

Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this." – John 13:7

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law.

The power of Scripture is unlike anything else on earth. It's a force to be reckoned with, containing intrinsic power, high enough to give us insight, deep enough to give us peace, wide enough to mold our personalities, and strong enough to bear us through horrendous days.

The bedrock theory I am referring to is the Theory of Reality, which states: Reality is neither the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. Either you acknowledge reality and use it to your benefit, or it will automatically work against you.

Com o passar do tempo [Robert] começou a compreender que era essa luz que fotografava, e não objectos. Os objectos eram apenas veículos para reflectir a luz.

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

The skill of foresight is crucial. The "lead" that a leader has is his ability to foresee an event that must be dealt with before others see it so that he can act on it his way, the right way, while the initiative is his.

Knowledge is but a tool. The spirit is of the essence.

She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly.

What the eye sees better the heart feels more deeply.

Success is a poor teacher

it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself

History was a crystal ball that told as much about the future as it did about the past.

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.

Xander could sense more than David's smile. He wished he could be more like that, easygoing. But then, David hadn't seen what Xander had seen.

Espionage is an effort to find windows into men's souls.