“Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person consciously has worked laboriously and with dedication.” PersonsProblemAnswersMissingAreasInsightUnconsciousDedicationReverie Author:Rollo May
“We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on that.” LooksFocusSpecialToughAreasInvestingInsightBasketsCompetencies Author:Charlie Munger
“Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has no understanding, whoever does not have at least a dim inkling in which area of the human spirit this greatness might be situated: he is within his own sphere either without genius, or he has not educated himself up to the point of the classical attitude.” HumansDoeMightSpiritUnderstandingAttitudeClearGreatnessGeniusAreasInsightEducatedSpheresHuman Spirit Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.” MayDonePainVoiceAbilityPerfectHonestyAreasPaidBlindHeavyInsightStupiditySpotsLoudDisabilityCriedMathematicianGiftedPhysicistTollsBlind SpotsLoud VoicesBovine Author:William S. Burroughs
“In the art of teaching, we recognize that ideas and insights need to cook over a period of time. Sometimes the student who is least articulate about expressing the ideas is in fact the one who is absorbing and processing them most deeply. This applies as well to our own private learning of our art form; the areas in which we feel most stuck and most incompetent may be our richest gold mine of developing material. The use of silence in teaching then becomes very powerful.” NeedsFeelsWellsMayArtIdeasSometimesFactsUseFormPowerfulSilenceTeachingStudentsMinesMaterialsPeriodsAreasGoldInsightStuckDevelopingCooksVery PowerfulIncompetentAbsorbingProcessing Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch
“What you share about how you've overcome in some area in life, it helps someone else believe that they can make it through whatever situation. You can give them some insight into how to pick up the pieces from whatever's been broken.” GivingBelieveHelpingSituationPiecesShareBrokenPicksAreasOvercomingInsight Author:Shonlock
“Even in some of our vaccine areas, like an AIDS vaccine, things have taken longer than we expected, but we have the pipeline of tools. The biological information that we have that gives us insights is fantastic.” GivingTakenInformationAreasToolsInsightExpectedAidsFantasticVaccinesPipeline Author:Bill Gates
“At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.” MadeFeelingsAgeSpiritSufferingHoursMy OwnAttitudeAliveAreasEndureCaughtSeekingInsightCriticalViolentPeacefulTwelveSkepticalSuffering Of Others Book:Black Boy Source: Black Boy