Quotes About Insight

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?" I said nothing. "What colour's a blackbird?" she said. "Black" "Typical!

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?

The wise say many things, enough to confuse the rest of us

Or was it just the eyes of the watcher that gave character to the world?

think he understands that you wouldn't do that

She had learned long ago that when something wouldn't make itself clear to her, what she needed to do was walk away from it for a short time.

know anything about, and so far, the

Only one who is self-aware can question her own self-awareness.

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

Revelation also comes in receiving greater understanding of the endowment as one seeks to comprehend its meaning.

When it comes to money, just having heard of something isn't enough; you've got to know what it means.

just look around you. I don't wish to be rude …

We have to know what's meant

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Listening is an underrated asset. People these days, they don't listen as much as they should. I read a lot, I travel a lot and I'm always listening.

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.

To see things is to enhance your sense of wonder both for the singular pattern of your own experience, and for the meta-patterns that shape all experience.

Insight meditation11 requires neither a blank mind, generating special imagery nor repeating a mantra, but trains the mind to dispassionately observe the phenomena constantly appearing on its luminous screen.

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

é melhor ser o cão-guia da matilha por três razões. Primeira, é ele quem abre os caminhos; segunda, ele é o primeiro a ver a paisagem; e terceira, ele não fica olhando para o rabo dos outros o tempo todo!

Curious, I thought, the way nature provided for eyelids, but not lids for the ears.