Insight Quotes - Page 32

• I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Inspiration, Humor, People

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• The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Epic, Tools, March

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• Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

  Peter Ustinov

  Courage, Information, Cowardice

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• We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.

  Steve Vai

  Home, Artist, Musical

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

  Steve Vai

  Thinking, Artist, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I actually do think you're seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that's a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what's going on with them.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Home, Caring, Thinking

  "Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg opens up". Interview with Fred Vogelstein, edition.cnn.com. July 1, 2009.

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• I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Beach, Art, Book

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• The most valuable insight on choosing whom to love is to be honest with yourself about the man standing before you.

  Niecy Nash

  Love Is, Men, Honest

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• **New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23

  Gary Hamel

  Lying, Ambition, Innovation

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• Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking

  Anita Roddick

  Real, Cynicism, Lacking

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• You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

  Bob Dylan

  Hippie, Blow, Wind

  FaceBook post by Bob Dylan from Feb 10, 2010

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• Facts are the enemy of truth.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Witty, Humorous, Inspiration

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• Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Writing, Caring

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.225, Anchor

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• People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in such a manner, they are belittling both the artist’s work and their own ability to experience it. Each painting I do says everything I want to say on its subject and in terms of that painting, and not all the trivia in the world concerning my private life will give the viewer more insight into it than what hangs there before their eyes. Frankly, as far as I’m concerned, even titling a work is an unnecessary concession.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, Eye, Thinking

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• Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys. Adolescence. The first date, the first kiss, the first chance to hold hands with someone special. Delayed, postponed, a decade's worth of longing--while everybody around you celebrates life, you pretend, suppress, inhibit, deprive yourself of you own joy--but finally ultimately, eventually, you find a place where you can have a taste of everything denied.

  David Gerrold

  Kissing, Boys, Hands

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• There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Recognizing, Greater

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• But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

  Stephen King

  Littles, Information, Wealth

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Men, Inheritance, Chance

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.

  Michael O'Brien

  Spiritual, Integrity, War

  Michael David O'Brien, Michael O'Brien (1998). “A Landscape with Dragons: The Battle for Your Child's Mind”, p.18, Ignatius Press

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• What good are insights? They only make things worse.

  Raymond Carver

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• The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining insight as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Children, Real, Character

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: with an introduction from Robert Ryan”, p.844, Simon and Schuster

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• Tell me a story then...keep me occupied." "A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story?" "Insight," said the king, "Go on.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Thinking, Make You Think

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• But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

  Keith Ablow

  Self, Sometimes, Produce

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• The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.

  Carl Sagan

  Ideas, Lovely, Fundamentals

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 91, 1980.

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• Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.

  Isaac Asimov

  Men, Thinking, Intuition

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.108, Macmillan

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