Quotes About Insight

Ignorance is not the inability to see, but the act of ignoring what is really going on in favour of what we imagine.

It's not as if, when you see, the world winks out of existence.

Porque el único modo de explorar efectivamente el futuro es entender el presente por completo.

John Cleese once said that when they started Monty Python, they thought that comedy was the silly bits: "We used to think that comedy was watching someone do something silly . . . we came to realize that comedy was watching somebody watch somebody do something silly." That's the basis of the tool of Straight Line/Wavy Line.

The point of reading is not reading but living. Reading helps you live with greater appreciation, keener insight and heightened emotional awareness.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies. Steve Martin

He knows only what is right in front of him; she is aware of every incoming sensation that glances obliquely against her soft, fragile core

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

big brown eyeballs do a quick roll around the inside of the room.

Is there something you hope will happen by telling me that thought?").

Self awareness gives us ultimate human freedom.

Despite spending more time with themselves than with any other person, people often have surprisingly poor insight into their skills and abilities.

Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so.

It is well and good to opine or theorize about a subject, as humankind is wont to do, but when moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.

Figure out what people really care about, not what they say they care about.

When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.

Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.

We are blind to our blindness.

Porque no hay nada como la pura fuerza de los números para retirar capas de confusión y contradicción.

Steven D. Levitt

If you are willing to confront the obvious, you will end up asking a lot of questions that others don't.

When was the last time you sat for an hour of pure, unadulterated thinking?

Pay attention to how people respond; if their response surprises or frustrates you, learn from it and try something different.

para cambiar el mundo, primero hay que comprenderlo.