Quotes About Insight

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

The problem, however, is obvious: we all operate on limited information based on where we stand relative to the challenges we face. As a result, we rarely see the whole picture, relying instead on just our own bias and restricted point of view. Going

The right coach will help you see what is getting in the way of making progress and may help shed some light on other steps you might take to overcome obstacles.

The right data delivered at the right time represents a valuable source of feedback, the kind that doesn't lie!

Visualisation accompanying or followed by movement can be an expression of the heart. The client may feel able to show through movement what he or she cannot say in words. Movement can include dance, which can symbolise deep feelings. Dance has many different forms, giving the client varied avenues for expression. This can help clients gain insight into themselves.

But suddenly, Pentunia spied the Book. The firecrackers had blown it open so that the pages showed. She had never seen them before. Now she saw that there was something written inside the Book which she could not read. So she sat down and thought and thought and thought, until at last she sighed, 'Now I understand. It was not enough to carry wisdom under my wing. I must put it in my mind and in my heart. And to do that I must learn to read.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

An open mind is not an empty one.

Judgment hinders imagination.

If you can define the problem differently than everybody else in the industry, you can generate alternatives that others aren't thinking about.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Gurdjieff put considerable emphasis on what he called the "instinctive sensing of reality," weak in many of us but not irretrievably so.

Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.…We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Wir waren jene, die wussten, aber nicht verstanden, voller Informationen, aber ohne Erkenntnis, randvoll mit Wissen, aber mager an Erfahrung. So gingen wir, von uns selbst nicht aufgehalten.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

The realm of human understanding is the only realm most of us have access to," I said.

Anger is like hands over your eyes when another person is trying to show you.

Everything you need to know can be found in a book.

Duh du jour.

Inspiration doesn't make writings, writings make inspiration.

Now you can say you've been bitten in the ass by an ass." "That's

The traveler sees what he sees," wrote G. K. Chesterton in the 1920s, "the tourist sees what he has come to see.