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• Bryzgalov isn’t just a running comedy act. He’s one of the league’s most thoughtful players and the fact that he offers the insight he does in his second language is something he’ll never get enough credit for.

  Ilya Bryzgalov

  Running, Thoughtful, Player

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• Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some grievous harm, proclaiming that only your pain matters in this world. More than against that person's body, you will then, at that moment, be committing a crime against your own imagination.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Pain, Imagination, Enemy

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• I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.

  Emir Kusturica

  Inspiration, Humor, People

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• 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

  Giving Up, Book, Passages

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

  Morris Kline

  Education, Knowledge, Math

  Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.408, Oxford University Press

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• The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound insights; the insights themselves come from concrete special cases.

  Paul Halmos

  Heart, Profound, Special

  Paul Richard Halmos (1983). “Selecta: expository writing”, Springer Verlag

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• The essence of profound insight is simplicity.

  James C. Collins

  Essence, Profound, Simplicity

  "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't". Book by James C. Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2001.

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• I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.

  Walter Martin

  Character, White, Helpful

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• Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Consistency, Want, Philosopher

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness

  Andrew McMahon

  Darkness, Path, Enlightening

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• Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say

  Vivian Gornick

  Emotional, Plot, Stories

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• It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to treatment out of spontaneous insight - typically, in our experience they come to their recognition scenes through a buildup of crises that crash through their almost impenetrable defense systems. They are forced to seek help; and when they don't, they perish miserably.

  Vernon Johnson

  Defense, Disease, Recognition

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• Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Together, Facts

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• No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.

  David Hockney

  Art, Giving, Interesting

  David Hockney, Paul Joyce (1988). “Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce”, Harmony

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• The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able to see not only the absence of complexity, the absence of duality, but the stoneness of stone and the waterness of water. One sees things precisely as they are, not merely in the physical sense, but with awareness of their spiritual significance.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Communication, Reality

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• A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

  A. Powell Davies

  Character, Greatness, Vision

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• Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person consciously has worked laboriously and with dedication.

  Rollo May

  Dedication, Missing, Answers

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• But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, 'Whose interest is really being served?'.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Acumen, Investing, Information

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• When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

  Steven Pressfield

  Ideas, Iron, Filing

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.

  Steven Pressfield

  Power, Ideas, Each Day

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.11, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Our alliance with AARP provides valuable insights into the critical 50- plus consumer segment. For more than two decades, The Home Depot has delivered home improvement know-how to customers of all ages. With the help of AARP, our newest workshops will address the specific interests of customers 50 and over.

  Robert Nardelli

  Home, Two, Age

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• Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Nature, Belief, Study

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• No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Muse, Darts

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.

  Leonard Bishop

  Firefly, Dark, Perception

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• To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.

  Rudolph Rummel

  Our World, Self, Understanding

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