Insight Quotes - Page 4

You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there

I think sometimes, despite our good intentions and wise choices, something's are up to fate and we learn to play our part the best we can.

Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their vo

True understanding lies beyond the desert

Changes at any level within an organization (individual, team or organization) or across business ecosystem require intent.

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their act

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

When you move something, you discover new meanings in it, Kristina thought, watching them.

Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast.

Change is simply a shift of the “Old Way - Chaos - New Way” to do things.

You must confront your past. At some time or other you must confront your past. It doesn't flash before your eyes, I knew that, but it's always there. We are our past. There is nothing else, and none of it can be undone.

But the Seeker, who is of unsure gait, also has unsure traits. The way that he moves is unstable and ungainly. It is also unnatural. No other life form adopted this precarious locomotion method of walking on two legs. Intrinsically off balance at all times, it takes just a small stone or a banana peel to topple him over. It is a mysterious wobbly motion much like that of a bicycle. How easy it is, to throw a cyclist off balance, need not be elaborated. But try throwing a truck off balance? Unsettling the Seeker’s balance is also equally easy. But try throwing a horse or a tiger off balance? Even a child knows that four wheels or, at least, three wheels are more stable than two wheels.

There are secrets in life. You just have to understand how to unlock them

Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow.

I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps.

Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down.

...that's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, sometimes live on.

For a man who was to exhibit such acute political sharpness later in his career, Napoleon completely misread the revolution's opening stages. 'I repeat what I have said to you,' he wrote to Joseph on July 22, a week after the fall of the Bastille, 'calm will return. In a month, there will no longer be a question of anything. So, if you send me 300 livres [7,500 francs] I will go to Paris to terminate our business.

You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong

Accusations are merely the envy of the unenlightened given form.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will.

As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity.

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detach

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

Change is a digital continuum.

Child, you do not forgive because the person who wronged deserves it.You misunderstand the point of forgiveness entirely. The only cage that a grudge creates is around the holder of that grudge. Forgiveness is not saying that the person who hurt you was right, or has earned it, or is allowed to hurt you again. All forgiveness means is that you will carry on without the burdens of rage and hatred.

People have the power to change their perspective. They just get caught up in an endless cycle of foolish things that don’t matter.

Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly.

The truth is precious commodity, not everyone will possess her.

Mindset is the “software,” and software is eating the world. Deal with changes at the mindset level.

Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.

If you help someones bank account rise But you can't help their heart feel... Really, what is your value?

Mathilde made an effort to use the more intimate form; she was evidently more attentive to this unusual way of speaking than to what she was saying. This use of the singular form, stripped of the tone of affection, ceased, after a moment, to afford Julien any pleasure, he was astonished at the absence of happiness; finally, in order to feel it, he had recourse to his reason. He saw himself highly esteemed by this girl who was so proud, and never bestowed unrestricted praise; by this line of reasoning he arrived at a gratification of his self-esteem.

...the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them, even as all else had been lost: dignity.This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness. To be deprived of it is to be de-humanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below mankind. Men subjected to dehumanizing treatment experience profound wretchedness and loneliness, and find that hope is almost impossible to retain. Without dignity, identity is erased...[They] learned a dark truth known to the doomed in Hitler’s death camps, the slaves of the American South, and a hundred other generations of betrayed people: Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man’s soul in his body long past the point in which the body should have surrendered it. The loss of it can carry a man off as surely as thirst, hunger, exposure and asphyxiation, and with greater cruelty... degradation could be as lethal as a bullet.

You can't do that, it makes too much sense.

Choices are few and sometimes one, to him who hath wisdom; but in abundance are they to the heart of he who lacketh understanding.

You can always evaluate a man's character by the way he speaks about his ex girlfriends and other women. When entering a new relationship or getting close with a new guy, make sure you take notice of the language he uses when referring to other girls

Myth offers a third place to stand or a third way to see when we find ourselves caught between opposing ideas and hardening ideologies.

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

Life is a sweet sour adventure. When you want to go it becomes sweet, when you remain, it becomes sour

In vain does the disguised traveller inwardly rebel against the influences and impressions which are wearing away his real self. The impressions of the past lose more and more their hold on him until they fade away, leaving the traveller hopelessly struggling in the toils of his own fiction, and the rôle he had assumed soon becomes second nature with him.

The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.

Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.Beginnings happen because there are endings.

You don’t need to be a psychologist to manage change, but you need to understand psychological emotions behind changes.

You can continue to cry over the same pain & complain about the same situations or you can expand your mind and you can grow. Maybe im not alone when I say, sometimes we all get a little confused and feel like we owe it to the people and places to try harder when in reality, most of the time lessons become lifelong if we don't learn the art of peaceful detachment early in the game.

Change capability is one of the strategic capabilities which underpin successful execution and move the organization from efficiency to agility.

Both science and spirituality tell us today that meditation and mindfulness strengthen mental control. The more we feel conscious of, and in control of our thoughts and our emotions, the more empowered we become to take effective action that is most suitable for our health and our life.

Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and smash a really deep and formidable problem; there was no one else who could command such a combination of insight, technique and power.

I had less and became more.

The big “WHEN” about change is not just a particular moment, but a thought-out planning with clear defined timelines.

What you see and feel depends on what you know and what you are looking for.

The glory of the elderly is their insight to life.

Think and then think what you have thought. Is it really what you had thought. Think again.

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

If there is any church service that you attend and it quickens your purpose and adds value to your life, if that church gives you some insight and understanding and a picture of how to do things better and become a solution provider to the problems of humanity in your country, then you can keep attending such a church.