Insight Quotes - Page 25

• General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene.

  Viola Spolin

  Reality, Giving, Actors

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• If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.

  Tony Robbins

  Real, Commitment, Islands

  Twitter post from Aug 7, 2009

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• True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

  Aristotle

  Self, Fleeting, Growing

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• Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies... and often dangerous ones. Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself. The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person's situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.

  Bill Bonner

  Lying, Believe, Simple

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• Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

  Carl Jung

  Long, Dawn, Unlikely

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.74, Routledge

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• It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that made me experience myself as shabby, petty, mean, helpless, humiliated, demanding, resentful or confused, and above all, sad and lonely. It was precisely through these experiences, which I had shunned for so long, that I became certain that I now understood something about my life, stemming from the core of my being, something that I could not have learned from any book.

  Alice Miller

  Beautiful, Lonely, Confused

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• Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need for new ideas and insights to occur. If you don't know what comes next in the story... clean your toilet. Change the bed sheets. For Christ sakes, dust the computer. A better idea will come.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Thoughtful, Dust

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• In the first stage of insight-building, all that researchers can do is observe phenomena. Second, they classify the phenomena in a way that helps them simplify the apparent complexities of the world so they can ignore the meaningless differences and draw connections between the things that really seem to matter. Third, based on the classification system, they propose a theory. The theory is a statement of what causes what and why, and under what circumstances.

  Clayton Christensen

  Differences, Connections, World

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• The technology certainly changes. I think, in terms of making films, that's been the biggest change. But many things stay the same. I mean, there's still stories to be told. There are scripts that give you a good guide and insight into the film.

  Howard Shore

  Mean, Technology, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that arrives through meditation.

  Jess Row

  Buddhism, Practice, Meditation

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Prajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects our lives.

  Jess Row

  Karma, World, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of yourself from the outside and get insight into what's going on in your life. I learned that from my godfather in my mid-twenties.

  India.Arie

  Self, Meditation, Style

  "The Legend, The Voice: India.Arie". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of a publisher and an audience, but what is valued in fiction writing - style, individual voice, insight - is scorned by the editor who is combing through your newspaper article.

  Jon Weisman

  Writing, Editors, Voice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Pushing, Process, Materials

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• There's lots of R&B blogs that I like going on and it basically just names new music that isn't out and won't be out for a long time and stuff. It just gives you an insight on what's coming up next and finding out about new artists.

  Cher Lloyd

  Artist, Names, Long

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• When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.

  L. Todd Rose

  Strong, Crazy, Character

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people healthy.

  Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

  Thinking, People, House

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• It's not like you get up in the morning on the first day of shooting and say, 'I'm so smart today I'm going to determine every choice I make from now until a year and a half from now.' So it changes. You gain insights. The movie bucks you.

  Robert Schwentke

  Morning, Smart, Years

  "Director Robert Schwentke Interview THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 10, 2009.

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• Perhaps - and this goes for the Kyoto School too - one of these insights is that nothingness and unknowing don't have to be equated with a destructive nihilism but with the experience of unity and participation - whilst resisting the tendency of objectifying metaphysics to claim that we can in some way 'know' that this experienced unity is really the truth of how things are, i.e., reveals being itself.

  George Pattison

  School, Kyoto, Unity

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits one from a particular author, whether it's Kierkegaard, Heidegger, or whoever. Nevertheless, it does seem to me that even the more religious parts of the authorship can offer significant insights into the meaning of the human condition to those who can't then say that, e.g., they believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and their personal Saviour.

  George Pattison

  Religious, Jesus, Believe

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• When we first started Fear factory, we asked ourselves what Fear Factory means, it was a cool name, but what did it mean? We obviously embraced the technological side of a factory, as a factory can be anything from something that insights fear, like a government machine, to something of futuristic technology, or it could be religion. So we embraced the technological side of it back in the early days.

  Dino Cazares

  Mean, Technology, Government

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I share five scriptural insights that lead me to the conclusion that those who are incapable of trusting in Christ on their own are still welcomed into heaven the same way you and I are welcomed into heaven: by the grace of God.

  Robert Jeffress

  Heaven, Grace, Way

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

  Paul Fry

  Poet, Introducing, Originals

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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• Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight, it's not strictly a spiritual practice.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Spiritual, Practice, Deep Understanding

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• I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.

  David O. Russell

  Teacher, Past, Challenges

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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