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Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.
Milton H. Erickson
Transformation will foster understanding more regularly than understanding will cause alteration.
2.
Shut your eyes and see.
James Joyce
Close your eyes and envision.
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Wherever you are is the entry point.
Kabir
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To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.
Margaret Bourke-White
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The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.
Allen Wheelis
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A moment of insight from God is worth more than a lifetime of experience.
John Paul Jackson
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Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
Joe Klein
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In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.
Peter Senge
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The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization
George Stigler
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When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.
Nhat Hanh
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'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
Ramana Maharshi
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Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
Vivienne Westwood
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Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.
Diane Abbott
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The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
George Orwell
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The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.
Bell Hooks
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Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.
Heinz von Foerster
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This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
Charles Duhigg
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What good are insights? They only make things worse.
Raymond Carver
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Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
Plato
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The only way to win is to work, work, work, work, and hope to have a few insights
Charlie Munger
30.
Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.
Slavoj Žižek
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Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.
Russell Kirk
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Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.
Glenn Close
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The quest for the truth, in and of itself,
Is a story that's filled with insights.
Carolyn Porco
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A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance.
Martha Beck
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It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.
Brassai
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Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.
William Whewell
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Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.
Heraclitus
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
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Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.
Immanuel Kant
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
Anton Chekhov
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Great insight comes from seeing something as odd and finding out why.
Philip Kotler
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The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.
Janna Levin
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O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.
Salman al-Ouda
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It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.
C. V. Wedgwood
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I was always 'awake'...Some part of me clamoring for NEW insights and NEW ways to make the world a better place.
Bill Hicks
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Intuition is when we use our experience, and the patterns we have learned, to rapidly size up situations and know how to respond without going through deliberate analysis. Intuitions depend on the patterns we have acquired. Insight is about gaining new patterns.
Gary A. Klein