Insight Quotes - Page 21

• Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights from partners in thought.

  Vera John-Steiner

  Struggle, Thinking, Ideas

  Vera John-Steiner (2006). “Creative Collaboration”, p.16, Oxford University Press

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• 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

  Accepting, Decree, Let Me

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• First, there was Confucius. Then, the sayings of Chairman Mao. And now the pithy, ironic, and humorous insights of Ai Weiwei. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this collection, which reflects a well-developed philosophy as well as a keen understanding of the Chinese Communist system. This is China made easy and interesting.

  Jerome A. Cohen

  Philosophy, Reading, Humorous

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• 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

  Taken, Sides, Trading

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• Creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. Think of art as a way of connecting, of sharing your insights with others.

  Nita Leland

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.19, North Light Books

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• I want to stay involved in gymnastics forever, but the Olympics really opened up doors in terms of motivational speaking. I'd like do some type of broadcasting or commentating for gymnastics events on TV, or even give my insights as a gymnast into other sports; I'm kind of a sports junkie in general.

  Jonathan Horton

  Sports, Gymnastics, Doors

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• If people want insights, if they want to swim in the currents of their own time and share the experiences of their time, then it makes sense to engage with the artists of one's own time.

  Michael Hersch

  Artist, People, Swim

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.

  Arthur Koestler

  Intuition, Moments, Short Circuit

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life crisis, the fact remains that the answer to virtually all of our problems resides within us already. It exist in the form of a vast reservoir of free-flowing energy that, when channeled to our muscles, can give us great strength and, when channeled to our brain, can give us great insight and understanding.

  Bruce Lee

  Emotional, Giving, Profound

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• Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you started), and you start cutting the shape that you think you want it to be. But you find, if you do it right, that the wood has a grain of its own (characters develop and present new insights, concentrated thinking about the story opens new avenues). If you're sensible, you work with the grain and, if you come across a knot hole, you incorporate that into the design. This is not the same as 'making it up as you go along'; it's a very careful process of control.

  Terry Pratchett

  Character, Writing, Cutting

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• One of the things I tried to do is to kind of talk my actors through the scene, but at the same time let them know how I plan to shoot the film and just give them an insight into the way I'm thinking, so that when they're acting out their scene, they can kind of see it in their minds' eyes.

  James Wan

  Eye, Thinking, Giving

  "Interview: James Wan, Leigh Whannell Talk ‘Insidious’ & Classic Horror". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. March 13, 2011.

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• In the age of revolution it is not knowledge that produces new wealth, but insight - insight into opportunities for discontinuous innovation. Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination. You must become your own seer.

  Gary Hamel

  Opportunity, Journey, Discovery

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• A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds.

  Sylvia Plath

  Real, Bird, Dreamer

  Sylvia Plath, “Love Is A Parallax”

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• The sustainability revolution will be organic. It will arise from the visions, insights, experiments and actions of billions of people. The burden of making it happen is not on the shoulders of any one person or group. No one will get the credit, but everyone can contribute.

  Donella Meadows

  People, Vision, Groups

  Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows (2004). “Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update”, p.269, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.

  Hermann Broch

  Reality, Doe, Kitsch

  Hermann Broch, Michael P. Steinberg (1984). “Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and His Time: The European Imagination, 1860-1920”, p.170, University of Chicago Press

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• The thing I like most about acting is that it entertains people. Films and TV can also offer such comfort to people... TV especially, because it's in people's homes and they can watch it at home. It offers them insights into different cultures and ideas, which I think is great.

  Yasmin Paige

  Home, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You become more and more charged with your life and with a life that you're observing. When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding. I'm much more tolerant with others and with myself. I'm not in rebellion all the time, I'm not angry so much. But all those feelings are really useful [when you're young] because they fire us, as long as they don't get out of control.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Fire, Long, Understanding

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

  Sheridan Hay

  Process, Ageing, Exchanging

  Sheridan Hay (2008). “The Secret of Lost Things”, p.232, Anchor

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• Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

  Rollo May

  Relaxation, Transition, Moments

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.62, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The manager-leader of the future should combine in one personality the robust, realistic quality of the man of action with the insight of the artist, the religious leader, the poet, who explains man to himself. The man of action alone or the man of contemplation alone will not be enough; these two qualities together are required.

  David Lilienthal

  Religious, Artist, Men

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• For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.

  Robert Reed

  Next Week, Entrepreneur, Priorities

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• Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Stars, Dancer, Intuition

  Deborah Eisenberg (2016). “Twilight of the Superheroes”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately. It is not his insight that sets the leader apart from the crowd. It is his courage to act and speak up when everyone else is silent....are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

  Andy Stanley

  Pay The Price, Leader, Challenges

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• The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Inspirational, Leader, Trying

  Mary Parker Follett (2013). “Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization”, p.53, Routledge

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• Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Personality, Age

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