Quotes About Insight

The best leaders never stop learning.

Keep uppermost in your mind that the illusion that you experience is an illusion, that it is surrounding you for the purpose of teaching you. It can only teach you if you become aware of its teachings.

It is to "get" at a gut level the paradigm that there are paradigms, and to see that that itself is a paradigm, and to regard that whole realization as devastatingly funny.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

The best way to deduce the system's purpose is to watch for a while to see how the system behaves.

When our small research group moved from MIT to Dartmouth College years ago, one of the Dartmouth engineering professors watched us in seminars for a while, and then dropped by our offices. "You people are different," he said. "You ask different kinds of questions. You see things I don't see. Somehow you come at the world in a different way. How? Why?

The answer clearly lies within the Slinky itself. The hands that manipulate it suppress or release some behavior that is latent within the structure of the spring. That is a central insight of systems theory. Once we see the relationship between structure and behavior, we can begin to understand how systems work, what makes them produce poor results, and how to shift them into better behavior patterns.

After a session of working with a model, computer or mental, it's a good idea to step back for a moment and remember that it is not the "real world" we have been experiencing, but a representation that is "realistic" in some respects, "unrealistic" in others. The task is to find insight in the model from those features of the scenarios that seem "realistic.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated. —POUL ANDERSON

You can see some things through the lens of the human eye, other things through the lens of a microscope, others through the lens of a telescope, and still others through the lens of systems theory. Everything seen through each kind of lens is actually there. Each way of seeing allows our knowledge of the wondrous world in which we live to become a little more complete.

Vision involves more than just seeing or being shown.

To the wise, a prick on the finger avoids a hole in the heart.

It's a wisdom that comes from seeing how things work. Things you want to happen always take a long time.' She pointed one little finger at the meech dragon and shook it in his face. 'You may read books and know bunches, but I have lived life longer than you.

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding

My way of knowing is by putting myself in the other's place. Forgiveness gave me the method. I see through your eyes.

Are you calling me a dummy?" "Not at all. I'm just saying that maybe some of us caught on a bit faster than others.

And will knowing what she reads make you know who she is?" "Can you think of a better way to tell?

She believed that books served as a mirror of the person who accumulated them.

It is easier to read about life than to live it, Even so young I knew that. Even so young I needed a rest from the living.

Lauren calls this one Revelation.

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence Ã¢â'¬Â¦ —HELEN KELLER

Nursing care comes in many forms. Sometimes it is the ability to make someone feel physically comfortable by various means. Other times it is the ability to improve the body's ability to achieve or maintain health. But often it is an uncanny yet well honed knack to see beyond the obvious and address, in some way, the deeper needs of the human soul.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.