Quotes About Insight

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

New places always help us look at life differently

It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry.

To quote Shirley Polanski, head waitress at the Humdinger Diner: "Beware of a big man whose stomach doesn't move when he laughs." I think a Chinese philosopher said it first, but these things trickle down to the food service community.

Life and death played out before my very eyes. You don't see these things if you clean your room regularly.

I felt he was speaking

Rather than thinking in terms of good and bad, it is more helpful to think in terms of conscious and unconscious, aware, and unaware.

The further we go on the spiritual path, the more we realize what beginners we really are.

As you go about your day, remember to notice something that you've never thought of being grateful for.

Our conscious minds are clever, but unfortunately, they just don't have the full awareness we need to make appropriate choices day by day.

Humility is reality to the full.

I began to trust the questions themselves to lead me beyond answers to understanding, beyond practice to faith

Regret claims to be insight. But how can it be spiritual insight to deny the good of what has been for the sake of what was not? No, regret is not insight. It is, in fact, the sand trap of the soul. It fails to understand that there are many ways to fullness of life, all of them different, all of them unique.

Knowledge of God and knowlegde of self give birth to humility.

We gain the insight to see ourselves through the friendships we make. They mirror us to ourselves. In them we see clearly what we do not have as well as what the world cannot do without. They do not judge us or condemn us or reject us. They hold us up while we grow, laughing and playing as we go. They bring us to the best of ourselves. "One's friends," George Santayana wrote, "are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Sometimes she talked like a poet; she made a little joke of it, so that you wouldn't mind.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

I don't know what I think until I write it down.

She wanted to know about them, not to know them.

I don't know these stories as well as they know me, I've discovered.

The secret of life," say the Utes, "is in the shadows and not in the open sun; to see anything at all, you must look deeply into the shadow of a living thing.

than from the product itself.

The five forces framework zeroes in on the competition you face and gives you the baseline for measuring superior performance. It explains the industry's average prices and costs, and therefore the average industry profitability you are trying to beat. Before you can make sense of your own performance (current and potential), you need insight into the industry's fundamental economics.