Quotes About Insight

point of view is worth 80 IQ points"—a

The true measure of an entrepreneur is how well he or she can identify new opportunities.

The biggest needle movers will be things that customers don't know to ask for," he would write years later in a letter to shareholders. "We must invent on their behalf. We have to tap into our own inner imagination about what's possible.

Loren looked at Christ on the cross behind the Mother Superior's head. She remembered an old joke, one she heard when she first got here. A boy is getting all Ds and Fs in math so his parents send him to Catholic school. On his first report card, his parents are shocked to see their son getting straight As. When his parents ask him why, he says, "Well, when I went into the chapel and saw that guy nailed to a plus sign, I knew they were serious." Mother

But the truth is, we all take facts and compute them through our own experiences.

usually something unrelated to the task at hand, ricocheting your thoughts into an unexpected direction—a direction that inevitably leads to a solution linear thinking could never have approached.

Things become clichés because they are apropos." "Breaks

An old Croatian proverb Adam had learned in college applied here: "The hunchback sees the hump of others—never his own.

Knowledge is bigger than debate," I

An old Croatian proverb Adam had learned in college applied here: "The hunchback sees the hump of others—never his own." Three

Wheels were beginning to churn in Myron's head. Never a good thing. "Any other messages?

There are some people you know are

The only thing worth writing about is people. People . Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight.

Man denkt sich nicht mit der psychischen Brechstange in jemanden hinein.

Humor should not be dissected because nothing lives through dissection.

No es cierto que se tenga derecho a dar cualquier opinión. Se tiene derecho a dar una opinión INFORMADA. Nadie tiene derecho a ser ignorante.

Shakespeare will not make us better and will not make us worse, but he may allow us to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Infinite knowledge can never wonder. All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.

One reads for oneself and for strangers.

Saint-Beuve, para mí el más interesante de los críticos franceses, nos enseñó a hacernos una pregunta crucial acerca de cualquier escritor al que leemos a fondo: ¿Qué piensa el autor de nosotros?

good leadership revolves around good judgment. That is the defining characteristic of a good leader.

Moore also realized that a good leader is also a good listener.

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.