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Quotations About Insight
By peace | July 5, 2006
‘Insight’ is a great word. An insight is going to help us succeed, to beat the competition. But just what is an insight? How can you be sure you’ve got one?
An insight is a fresh and unexpected perspective. It gets the following reaction from those involved: “Wow, yes, you’re right. I’d never really thought of it like that before, but you’re absolutely right. You really understand what’s going on here”.
Achieving that kind of reaction is not easy. It means you have to think of something that no one else has thought of before. Or, more accurately, that no one else in your market has thought of before. It requires that you look at things differently. For that reason, most of the great sources of ‘insight inspiration’ are from outside of your category, and often outside of your (geographic) marketplace.
Quotes About Insight
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. ~ Thomas Carlyle
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners… Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing… not moving toward excellence. ~ Denis Waitley
Humour brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. ~Agnes Repplier
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ~Arnold Bennett
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. ~Denis Diderot
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. ~ Eric Hoffer
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all. ~Erica Jong
Hamming’s Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. ~Hamming
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight. ~Harold Rosenberg
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing. ~Herodotus
Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers. ~Jerome Wiesner
Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The secret of man’s success resides in his insight into the mood’s of people, and his tact in dealing with them. ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. ~Leo Rosten
The best vision is insight. ~Malcolm S. Forbes
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. ~Marshall Mcluhan
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. ~Marshall Mcluhan
I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable – any real insight or broad human sentiment. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not. ~Stephen Vizinczey
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach. ~Walter Lippmann
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