Quotes About Insight

You can't see the whole sky from one window.

People is wise 'cause they get out in the world and live. Wisdom comes from experience--from knowin' each day is a gift and accepting it with gladness. You read a whole lot of books, and readin' sure has made you smart, but ain't no book in the world gonna make you wise.

Deep down I had the feeling that Oletta most likely knew all that was worth knowing, not in book-learning ways, but in the ways that really mattered, ways that let you hum songs during the day and sleep peacefully at night.

By thinking hard about how this artist sees, I learn more about my own seeing.

Get out of the way of your story.

Make your readers the agents of empathy.

I began to see the world the way it is, instead the way I wanted it to be.

Lists are the butterfly nets that catch my fleeting thoughts...

I always know I'm talking to a gardener or a photographer if at any given time, they know where the light is.

When I stopped to pay attention to where my breathing was deep and settled, the truth began to emerge from the mist.

The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

That's when I saw—cleary saw—that there was more than one mountain in my life. Some could be seen and some couldn't be, but just the same, they were all out there. All out there waiting for me.

Today we are not only testing and grading our children into the ground, but we are not teaching them how to see and understand the deep meaning of what they learn, or to perceive the connectedness of information about the world. It is indeed time to try something different.

The key is always to see the thing-as-it-is in all its unique and marvelous complexity.

important key to learning to draw is learning how to set up conditions that allow this mental shift that enables you to see and draw.

Although I hadn't had my hamster ball for long, I loved rolling up and down the aisles of Room 26. You can learn a lot from studying the floor of a classroom. You can find out who is messy (Richie, Mandy) or who is twitchy (Seth, Art). You can even find out who is growing the fastest by seeing whose jeans are a little short (Garth, Sayeh).

If you cannot increase reflective power in people, you might as well not teach, because reflection is the only thing that in the long run changes anybody

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

But also, as you go through life, you pick up shreds of things, and eventually you are able to fit them together

As you recover, you will feel more conscious of your surroundings. Freed from the 'fog' of your pain, fear, and confusion, you will awaken and see the world revealed as never before. You will begin to observe things, especially yourself. You will be aware of what you do and why you do it. You will begin to observe your own behavior and attitudes.

Selfawareness—recognizing a feeling as it happens—is the keystone of emotional intelligence . . . the ability to monitor feelings from moment to moment is crucial to psychological insight and understanding. . . . People with greater certainty about their feelings are better pilots of their lives, having a surer sense of how they really feel about personal decisions.

As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.