Quotes About Insight

What can books do that movies can't? Put the vision in the hands of the reader. With a book, you've got a writer and a director—and the director is the reader.

We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.

He read Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes, and Niccolò Machiavelli.

Imparai tutte, o quasi tutte, le cose più importanti che erano state pensate e scritte prima della mia nascita; mi abituai a guardare il mondo con cento occhi, anziché con i miei due soli, e a sentire nella mia testa cento pensieri diversi, anziché il mio solo pensiero. Diventai consapevole di me stesso e degli altri. Gli uomini, senza la lettura, non conoscono che una piccolissima parte delle cose che potrebbero conoscere.

Sometimes, we can't trust our own vision. We have to see the good another sees in us.

Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: God's revelation is given to something called a loving heart.

I would urge us to be not too certain of our accustomed ways of looking at Genesis, and to open ourselves to the wisdom of the God-bearing men of the past who have devoted so much intellectual effort to understanding the text of Genesis as it was meant to be understood. These Holy Fathers are our key to understanding Genesis.

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it. They cause the events that others have to react to. They make change.

Delivering unique creativity is hardest of all, because not only do you have to have insight, but you also need to be passionate enough to risk the rejection that delivering a solution can bring. You must ship.

She solves problems that people haven't predicted, sees things people haven't seen, and connects people who need to be connected.

Depth of knowledge combined with good judgment is worth a lot. Depth

The number one thing to steal from your competitors: Wisdom.

THE RIGHT INFORMATION BRINGS KNOWLEDGE. AND KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. SHARING IT IS EMPOWERMENT.

What happens when the world cares more about unique voices and remarkable insights than it does about cheap labor

Seeing clearly means that you're smart enough to know when a project is doomed, or brave enough to persevere when your colleagues are fleeing for the hills. Abandoning your worldview in order to try on someone else's is the first step in being able to see things as they are.

Sonder is defined as that moment when you realize that everyone around you has an internal life as rich and as conflicted as yours.

we're seeing an explosion in new approaches, new models and new forms of interaction. This growth comes from change, insight and exploration, not obedience.

A life without attachment and stress can give you the freedom to see things as they are and call them as you see them. If you had this skill, what an asset you would be to any organization.

The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.

If you're able to look at what's happening in your world and say, "There's the pattern," or "Wow, that's interesting, I wonder why," then you're far more likely to respond productively than if your reaction is "How dare he!

Expertise gives you enough insight to reinvent what everyone else assumes is the truth. Sure, it's possible to randomly challenge the conventions of your field and luckily find a breakthrough. It's far more likely, though, that you will design a great Web site or direct a powerful movie or lead a breakthrough product development if you understand the status quo better than anyone else. Beginner's luck is dramatically overrated. Emotional

What most people want in a leader is something that's very difficult to find: we want someone who listens. Why

Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths—whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over. If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued.