Quotes About Insight

Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Out job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Without knowledge you cannot choose wisely. And without wise choice, there is no freedom.

Being read is a fringe benefit, and being read with understanding is a form of grace.

If I had to pick between knowing just a little about a lot of folks and knowing everything about a few, I'd opt for the long, wide-angle shot, I think.

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event. That is why until we know what others think they know, we cannot truly understand their acts.

Beurteile niemals ein Buch nach dem Umschlag!

Beurteile ein Buch nicht nach seinem Umschlag!

Ohne Oberfläche gibt es keine Tiefe", erwiderte der Gnom.

Knowledge is night!

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you don't know everything you know.

your choices can then only be as good as your requests, and sometimes that is not enough. There is a higher level that comes through recognition: You may not be able to articulate what you want, but you can recognize it when you see it.

You are actually doing creative work, and you may find what you really want rather than what you thought you wanted.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

Para ver claro, basta con cambiar la dirección de la mirada. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

I'm slow with a new idea, and want to think it over alone, where I'm sure it's the idea and not the man that's getting me.

She wasn't given to thinking very far, but she did a lot of intelligent feeling.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

No one alone can attain truth.

The doings of Sherlock Holmes are better recorded by a Watson than by another Holmes.

Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people. Stephen, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)

You could never know what transpired beneath another's skin.