Insight Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.

  Richard Schmid

  Skills, Ideas, Giving

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• As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them down to a complex arrangement of a few hundred or possibly even thousands of brushstrokes.

  Richard Schmid

  Spiritual, Forever, Vision

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• The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.

  Lincoln Hall

  Wisdom, Heart, Adventure

  Lincoln Hall (2008). “Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest”, p.239, Penguin

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• We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides: But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Fire, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Thinking, People

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• Artur Rubinstein, the famous pianist, was once asked the secret of his success-was it dedication, ability, discipline, hard work? Mr. Rubinstein smiled as he remarked, "It's hard to say, but one thing I do know: if you love life, life will love you back!" What a wonderful insight! That philosophy explains how a man in his eighties can continue to be so creative. For life is simply filled with exciting blessings for everybody. They're ours if we give enough of ourselves to life!

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Philosophy, Love You

  Norman Vincent Peale (1977). “The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...”, Hallmark Cards

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• If you are to be successful...you will need to be inspired. You will need to receive revelation. I will give you one piece of advice: Go to bed early and get up early. If you do, your body and mind will become rested and then in the quiet of those early morning hours, you will receive more flashes of inspiration and insight than at any other time of the day.

  Harold B. Lee

  Morning, Inspiration, Successful

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• Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into the nature of existence and helps a person prepare for complete enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, Helping, Satori

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• Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.

  Robert D. Richardson

  Thinking, Exciting, Compelling

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• Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Thinking, Tradition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.7, Harvard University Press

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