Quotes About Insight

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

Coach Cunningham's my guy. Without me saying a word, he can read my body language and facial expressions and tell me exactly what I'm thinking and feeling. We're actually very similar people.

I love discussing my game with people who have similar mindsets.

When I was working on 'Night Falls Over Kortedala,' I was listening a lot to 'Graceland,' the Paul Simon record. I really got into the lyrics on that album. The opening line is so brilliant, the way he sets the scene.

I am not as simple as I look.

Deep and simple are far, far more important than shallow and complicated and fancy.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

I just like it when I can understand things, and the simpler it is, the easier it is to understand.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Psychology is simply great because it helps you better understand all kinds of people.

The difference between explaining behavior and excusing it is captured in the saying To understand is not to forgive.

A victim act is a form of passive aggression. It seeks to achieve gratification not by honest work or a contribution made out of one's experience or insight or love, but by the manipulation of others through silent (and not-so-silent) threat. The victim compels others to come to his rescue or to behave as he wishes by holding them hostage to the prospect of his own further illness/meltdown/mental dissolution, or simply by threatening to make their lives so miserable that they do what he wants.

Subject is deeper than topic. It's not what it's about, it's what it's really about.

In short, if the Muse exists, she does not whisper to the untalented.

The enemy is a very good teacher. — the Dalai Lama

When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

You're supposed to learn that things that you think are nothing, as weightless as air, are actually powerful substantial forces, as real and as solid as earth.

All genuine epiphanies seem to follow this model: their defining quality is the relinquishment of delusion.