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• Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.

  Seth Godin

  Vision, Resistance, Genuine

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• The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

  Hermann Hesse

  Music, Attitude, Destiny

  "The Glass Bead Game". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1943.

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• Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.

  Les Back

  Stupid, Differences, Brilliant

  Les Back (2007). “The art of listening”, Berg Publishers

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• Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Reason, Materials

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• Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Metaphor, Supreme

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• Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny because it's outside our accepted boundary of decorum. Something is funny because it defies our expectations. Something is funny because it offers a temporary reprieve from the hardship of seeing the world as it actually is. Something is funny because it is able to suggest gently that even the worst of our circumstances and sins is subject to eventual mercy.

  Steve Almond

  Expectations, Velocity, Able

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• It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.

  Umair Haque

  Critics

  "Ten Things You’re Not Allowed to Say at Davos". hbr.org. January 28, 2011.

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• To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

  Jack Kornfield

  Meditation, Life Is, Our Lives

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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• Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

  Immanuel Kant

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights that are right in front of them.

  Gary A. Klein

  People, Belief, Sometimes

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

  Bliss Perry

  Teacher, Book, Teaching

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• I believe that the data will set you free. At the end of the day, it’s about how do you turn those pieces of information into insights that will improve business.

  Steven Rice

  Believe, Data, The End Of The Day

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• Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.

  Maya Angelou

  Kings, Powerful, Heart

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

  Sarah Dessen

  Giving, Firsts, Reader

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen". Interview with Aine Fey, ainesrealm.blogspot.com. June 6, 2013.

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• The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

  Bertrand Russell

  Agreement, Creative, Intuition

  Bertrand Russell (1981). “Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays”, p.17, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I wasn't working much. So I focused on studying, and I really learned what it means to be an actor. And here I was on Jonny Quest,working with all these great people from back in the golden age of Hollywood, who came up doing radio. These were journeymen, working actors. It made me proud, and gave me some insight into what acting was really about if you weren't a star.

  Tim Matheson

  Mean, People, Age

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• One should have insight into this world of dreams that passes in the twinkling of an eye.

  Hojo Shigetoki

  Dream, War, Eye

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• The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Drawing, Water

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.164

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• Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.

  Leon Surmelian

  Character, Self, Human Nature

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• Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

  Densey Clyne

  Wisdom, Cliche

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• A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren’t going well, tell them.

  David M. Cote

  Employee, Wells, Huge

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• The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Order, Conservative, Easy

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• It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

  Paul Dirac

  Views, Mathematical Equations, Progress

  "The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature" by Paul Dirac, blogs.scientificamerican.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Thinking, Sometimes

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.

  Thomas Keating

  Mean, People, Tradition

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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