Quotes About Insight

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."

We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees.

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.

Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.

Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.

Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right.