Quotes About Insight

a leader in a crisis situation has better odds of success if she can see emotional patterns and make use of different ways to manage them.

good thinking wins,

Until you work backwards from the moments, hours or days before the actual mistake occured, you probably won't see all of the contributing factors and can't learn all of the possible lessons. The more complex the mistake, the further back you'll need to go and the more careful and open-minded you need to be in your own investigation.

Data can't decide things for you. It can help you see things more clearly if captured carefully, but that's not the same as deciding.

There must be someone challenging ideas in ways their creators don't necessarily like in order for those creators to see the blind spots in their thinking. Breakthroughs await in those blind spots.

Experience benefits only those who take the time to learn from it.

Doesn't matter what I think or how I feel," said Doc Hansom. "Just go look at the thermometer mounted on the aquarium glass. That will give you your answer." Hansom went back to his inspections, leaving Tommy Tang to wonder why he had not thought of such a simple answer.

I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.

The library—the place in my life that was full of books—beagan to teach me that books weren't everything.

What I learned from Jeff (and his daughter) that day is the importance of constantly, maybe even obsessively, asking "why" in your business. I learned that when you start to question things, you wind up creating these "aha" moments, which combine a sense of wonder with the knowledge of how to get something done.

Only through understanding do we have any hope of harnessing the enormous potential that the world possesses.

I thought it was just a picture of madness. But that wasn't. It was a message, it has to be, those words are too specific.

Failure is not something to be feared but something to be cherished because it is always teaching us.

It takes intelligence to act dumb.

Don't just DO something. Stand there! (and get perspective and understanding)

But you didn't die." "Clever lad, to deduce that from such slender evidence after living with me for just three years.

Barsavi realized something that too many men in the city were slow to grasp; an idea that he reinforced years later when he took the Berangias sisters to be his primary enforcers. He was wise enough to understand that the women of Camorr could be underestimated only at great peril to one's health.

You know who waxes philosophical about the tiniest weaknesses of enemies? The powerless.

That's a generous appraisal of our foresight

Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

Understanding is a luxury; you don't get to have it.

If you think something is innovative, it just means you haven't been paying attention. attention. Scott Rogers

Those that don't know history aren't poisoned by it.

Don't base reality on what you have seen when you have seen very little,