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• Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.

  Sergio De La Pava

  Loneliness, Lightning, Connections

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• You can’t really innovate for the past (your offering won’t be innovative and will be beaten easily by competitors). If you innovate for the future, then adoption will be slow until customers become ready. The trick is to task your insights team to provide guidance for the future present.

  Braden Kelley

  Team, Past, Offering

  Braden Kelley (2010). “Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire: A Roadmap to a Sustainable Culture of Ingenuity and Purpose”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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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• Ontario is fortunate to have the expertise, insight and leadership of The Honourable David C. Onley. I look forward to working with him to promote an inclusive, accessible Ontario that will help strengthen our province's economy.

  Brad Duguid

  Looks, Ontario, Helping

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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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• Interpretations of Muslim assimilation have gravitated between two arguments: that Muslims will remain as permanent outsiders or that Muslims will blend in with little difficulty at all. Mucahit Bilici demonstrates how wanting these arguments are. Finding Mecca in America takes us into the uncharted territory of what it is actually like to be Muslim immigrants in the United States. I am especially impressed by the study's theoretical depth and empirical insights.

  Robert Wuthnow

  Two, America, Depth

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• Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on a regular basis might be the best investment of time you ever make.

  Carl R Trueman

  Drinking, Beer, Two

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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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• Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.

  Gary A. Klein

  Evolution, Adaptation, Driven

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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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• I became part of a little study group in community college and started caring about strangers. It gave me insight into what an asshole I was. I saw that I had only lived half of a life.

  Dan Harmon

  Caring, College, Study Group

  "EMMYS: 'Community's Dan Harmon". Interview with Diane Haithman, deadline.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ultimate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.9, Editora Dracaena

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• What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about How To Be More Creative, that's for sure... If startling insights could be systematically arrived at, they wouldn't be startling. The best you can do is to create a conducive environment: put in the hours; take time to daydream; avoid mind-corroding substances.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Book, Reading, Creative

  "This column will change your life: creative thinking" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2013.

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• Endless drama in a group clouds consciousness. Too much noise overwhelms the senses. Continual input obscures genuine insight. Do not substitute sensationalism for learning.

  John Heider

  Drama, Clouds, Groups

  John Heider (2014). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.12, Green Dragon Books

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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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• A scientist works largely by intuition. Given enough experience, a scientist examining a problem can leap to an intuition as to what the solution 'should look like.' ... Science is ultimately based on insight, not logic.

  Guy Consolmagno

  Intuition, Looks, Logic

  Guy Consolmagno (2000). “Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist”, McGraw Hill Professional

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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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• When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.

  Cate Blanchett

  Understanding, Getting Older, Looking Forward

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Reality, Understanding, Desire

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

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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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