Insight famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.
-- Albert Camus -
People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
-- Albert Ellis -
A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.
-- Alexander Smith -
The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.
-- Allen Wheelis -
Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.
-- Andrew Schneider -
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it’s served without advice or insight.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures
-- Ben Shneiderman -
All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.
-- Brenda Shoshanna -
Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.
-- Brian Greene -
The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.
-- Carolyn Porco -
This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
-- Charles Duhigg -
Any supreme insight is a metaphor.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.
-- Chris Bohjalian -
The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
-- Dan Byrd -
A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren’t going well, tell them.
-- David M. Cote -
In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight...
-- David Rakoff -
Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.
-- Densey Clyne -
Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.
-- Diane Abbott -
Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight.
-- Don Peppers -
Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
-- Duane Michals -
When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
-- Franz Grillparzer -
... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.
-- George Eliot -
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
-- George Orwell -
The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization
-- George Stigler -
Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.
-- Glenn Close -
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
-- Jack Kornfield -
The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.
-- Janna Levin -
We are surrounded by data, but starved for insights.
-- Jay Baer -
Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
-- Joe Klein -
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today.
-- John C. Maxwell -
Insight makes argument ridiculous.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
A moment of insight from God is worth more than a lifetime of experience.
-- John Paul Jackson -
When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.
-- Josh Radnor -
All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.
-- Judd Apatow -
I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.
-- Ken Follett -
A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.
-- Lloyd -
Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.
-- Malcolm Gladwell -
Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.
-- Marc Benioff -
To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.
-- Margaret Bourke-White -
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves
-- Margaret Mead -
Insight occurs just because it is high time.
-- Martin Grotjahn -
Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.
-- Milton H. Erickson -
To gain customer insights, we must understand that we are prisoners of what we know and what we believe.
-- Mohanbir Sawhney -
The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.
-- Morris Kline -
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
-- Mortimer Adler -
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.
-- Nhat Hanh -
Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself.
-- Paul Davies -
What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.
-- Paul Hawken -
In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.
-- Peter Senge -
What good are insights? They only make things worse.
-- Raymond Carver -
Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.
-- Robert D. Richardson -
Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.
-- Russell Kirk -
No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside.
-- Sam Lipsyte -
Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight
-- Sheridan Hay -
Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.
-- Slavoj Žižek -
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
-- Socrates -
Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.
-- Susanne Katherina Langer -
You get more insight as you get older, on everything. I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product'.
-- Taylor Momsen -
It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.
-- Umair Haque -
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
-- Walter Lippmann -
Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
-- William Least Heat-Moon -
Shannon's most radical insight was that meaning was irrelevant.
-- William Poundstone -
Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.
-- William Whewell -
There is a lot in Adam Smith that reflects the insights of Rousseau and anticipates those of Marx.
-- Allen W. Wood -
You cannot understand what a person is saying unless you understand who they are arguing with.
-- Donald Symons -
Intuition is when we use our experience, and the patterns we have learned, to rapidly size up situations and know how to respond without going through deliberate analysis. Intuitions depend on the patterns we have acquired. Insight is about gaining new patterns.
-- Gary A. Klein -
But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.
-- John Lloyd Young -
Working in film, I'm sure you have insight into this, there's something great that only comes by way of interactions with others that a monastic life does not afford.
-- John Maus -
Only recently have we begun to understand the specific cognitive skills that contribute to business success and how to measure them. Hopefully, this insight will allow us to more keenly focus our attention on indentifying and cultivating decision-making abilities in the executive population.
-- Justin Menkes -
Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.
-- Paul Fry -
We are as humans essentially products of our hardware - that is an insight that I've taken with me into the trading side.
-- Roy Niederhoffer -
Being English definitely gave me some insight into these eccentric Brits puttering around Hollywood.
-- Sacha Gervasi -
O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.
-- Salman al-Ouda -
A visionary is someone who sees the future with both insight and foresight: Insight into the deeper causes and meaning of events in the world, and foresight, or an intuitive grasp of the big picture, such as the trajectory of politics and popular culture.
-- Corinne McLaughlin -
I think the Russians need to think more carefully about the commitment they made under the chemical weapons agreements to be the guarantor that these weapons would be seized, they would be removed, they would be destroyed. And since they are Bashar al-Assad's ally, they would have the closest insight as to the compliance.
-- Rex W. Tillerson -
We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.
-- Jamie Hyneman
