Quotes About Insight

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Relationship is the mirror in which we see ourselves as we are.

The things that happen in fiction mirror those things that have happened ---or will happen soon --- in real life.

O: 'The most we can do is to write - intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively - about what it is like living in the world at this time

Self-knowledge can, and ought, to apply not only to the soul, but also to the body; the man without insight into the fabric of his body has no knowledge of himself. —JOHN MOIR, student of anatomy, notes from opening lecture, Anatomical Education in a Scottish University, 1620

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

The search for understanding, wherever it roams, is a search for better simplifications. Simplifications which explain more and distort less... All human understanding is based on simplifications of more complex realities.

Fatal Vision was a very successful book that a lot of people like, but the problem with it is that you could edit out 75% of the book without losing a single fact or insight.

Your past is handing you a tool you can use to leap into your future: the crucible moments from your own life. The power you need is in looking back to look forward.

Choosing to know yourself deeply hands you a torch to see beyond yourself, into the future. Into a strong future.

Let me put this in my words: Solomon asked for a hearing heart, and God said, Okay, I'll give you wisdom. The implication is that wisdom is not just a deposit made into somebody who now has all the answers. It implies that the ability to hear the voice of God is the key to wisdom. Wisdom, then, is a relational fruit.

My life reflects what I see with my heart.

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it also implies there are ways of the Holy Spirit that are yet to be discovered.

I don't have dating tips.

Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

This is a book about everything. It is about everything I know and about everything I think you should know, too.

everyone you meet knows something you don't

Our past is our key to our future

I've learned more sitting alone in a small room facing a dark wall & myself than anything I ever read