Quotes About Insight

A la gente no se la conoce bien hasta que no se ha tenido una verdadera pelea con ella. Sólo entonces puede uno juzgar el carácter que tienen.

Non impari a conoscer la gente se non quando ci hai ben litigato insieme. Soltanto allora ne puoi giudicare il carattere

Man lernt die Menschen erst gut kennen, wenn man einmal richtigen Streit mit ihnen gehabt hat. Erst dann kann man ihren Charakter beurteilen!

I've learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!

It seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl

Man lernt die Menschen erst gut kennen, wenn man einmal richtigen Streit mit ihnen gehabt hat. Erst dann kann man ihren Charakter beurteilen. (S.58)

Quero ver as coisas com olhos novos e formar minha opinião.

I've gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I've had enough for the present.

You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.

Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you to soften, can wake you up.

It is funny how no one seems to want my always excellent advice.

I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.

Are you willing to see what you are seeing, and to know what you know?

Mark Twain said that Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before.

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.

Writers show us the glades we'd missed, the trickling voices of streams, the eyes of a barn owl watching us. A writer like my father revealed a shape and movement amid it all, layers, meaning, perspective, joy, because he paid such careful attention, and paying attention is about the biggest redemption there is.

And if minor characters show an inclination to become major characters … you at least give them a shot at it, because … just as in the real world it may take you many years to find out that the stranger you talked to once for half an hour in the railroad station may have done more to point you to where your true homeland lies than your priest or your best friend or even your psychiatrist.

If it is someone else's problem, you probably don't have the solution.

My good ideas for other people so often seem to annoy them.

The search for meaning will fill you with a sense of meaning. Otherwise

that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around. Writing