Insight Quotes - Page 16

• The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.

  Dan Byrd

  Scared

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Distance, Dating, Erotic

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.

  Vera John-Steiner

  Teacher, Commitment, Creativity

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• My prayer is to learn new things, imbibe fresh insights. You must not take life too seriously. You must enjoy the process of living.

  Sonu Nigam

  Prayer, Process, Enjoy

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• The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

  George Stigler

  Return, Study, Economist

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• However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Book, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.93, Publishdrive

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• Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Ocean, Feelings, Way

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• Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

  Junot Diaz

  Giving, Answers, Literature

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• Daniel Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know.  The organized Mind is smart, important, and, as always, exquisitely written.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Smart, Organized Mind, Important

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• But the extraordinary insight which some persons are able to gain of others from indications so slight that it is difficult to ascertain what they are, is certainly rendered more comprehensible by the view here taken.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Taken, Views, Able

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, Harvard University Press

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• Having observed his market calls real time over the years, I can say that Jason Perl's application of the DeMark Indicators distinguishes his work from industry peers when it comes to market timing. This book demonstrates how traders can benefit from his insight, using the studies to identify the exhaustion of established trends or the onset of new ones. Whether you're fundamentally or technically inclined, Perl's DeMark Indicators is an invaluable trading resource.

  Leon G. Cooperman

  Real, Book, Years

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• Nordenson describes wrestling with work as with a large force that wants to have its way with you, even as you want to have your way with it. This wrestling, sinewy and particular as its wrestler, enlarges us as we read our way into her life with its incisive insights and explorations. Can one wrestle meditatively? This author has learned the art and we are the benefactors.

  Luci Shaw

  Art, Wrestling, Want

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• I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

  Laurance Rockefeller

  Appreciation, Art, Understanding

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• Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.

  Robert Grudin

  Creativity, Ideas, Rejection

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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• The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged mind-theaters full of tragedies and triumphs, because unfortunately, the fear of death does wonders to focus the mind, inspire creativity, and heightens the senses. Trusting one's hunches only seems gamble if one has time for seem; otherwise the brain goes on autopilot and trades the elite craft of analysis for the best rapid insights that float up from its danger files and ancient bag of tricks.

  Diane Ackerman

  Creativity, Ideas, Worry

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• Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.

  Kevin Bales

  Confused, Book, Games

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• ... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

  George Eliot

  Imperfection, Painting, Staring

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2220, Delphi Classics

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• It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Intimate Relationships, Perception

  Source: www.awarenessmag.com

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• The greatest million dollar insight I can give anybody is find a big problem and then solve it in a big way.

  Brian Tracy

  Giving, Dollars, Way

  Source: ceotraining.com

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• It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Reality, Discovery

  "Essays on the Art of Theater". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1954.

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• Imagination, which in truth
  Is but another name for absolute power
  And clearest insight, amplitude of mind,
  And reason, in her most exalted mood.

  William Wordsworth

  Power, Names, Imagination

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 14, l. 190

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• Among people I have met, the few whom I would term “great” all share a kind of unquestioned, fierce dedication; an utter lack of doubt about the value of their activities (or at least an internal impulse that drives through any such angst); and above all, a capacity to work (or at least to be mentally alert for unexpected insights) at every available moment of every day of their lives.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Work, Dedication

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• If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Taken, College, Men

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• Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Winning, Zest

  Woodrow Wilson (1961). “Constitutional Government in the United States”, p.68, Transaction Publishers

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• In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

  Herman Melville

  Emotion, Subtle, Causation

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