Insight Quotes - Page 27

• Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art, unless to enable human lives to be lived with insight of a deeper kind, with more sensitive feelings, more intense sense of the beautiful, with deeper understanding?

  Kathleen Raine

  Beautiful, Art, Understanding

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• Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem.

  Diane Glancy

  Poetry, Vision, Insane

  Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

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• The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

  Georgia Harkness

  Religion, May, Danger

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• It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

  Neal Stephenson

  Technology, Failing, Cases

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• Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying.

  Pauli Murray

  Art, Impact, Tragedy

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• Saying no”, argues the author Kevin Ashton, “has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.

  Kevin Ashton

  Math, Thinking, Simple

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• Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of others.

  Irene Hunt

  Children, Integrity, Compassion

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• a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and excitement when the insight comes, and is endlessly attracted to working out the idea.

  Vivian Gornick

  Science, Ideas, Work Out

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.30, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The reliance on social media as the avenue to get peer insight continues to increase.

  Bob Johnson

  Media, Peers, Social

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• It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Motivation, Believe, Giving

  "Interview: Malcolm Gladwell on his return to faith while writing “David and Goliath”". Interview with Sarah Pulliam Bailey, religionnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• I keep in touch with my fans by keeping a blog online and I try to answer questions every day. I also have a twitter and a facebook. I think that social networking gives authors a unique insight in the minds of their fans and for me that is very valuable.

  Cassandra Clare

  Unique, Thinking, Giving

  Phantastik-Couch.de Interview, www.phantastik-couch.de. March 2012.

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• When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Stupid, Flippant, Calm

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• Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

  Jennifer Stone

  Light, Sorrow, Rubbish

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

  Diane Kruger

  Inspiration, Humor, People

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

  Eudora Welty

  Understanding, Lucky, Snapshots

  Eudora Welty (1996). “One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression : a Snapshot Album”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

  Eudora Welty

  Understanding, Labels, Firsts

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