Insight Quotes - Page 5

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, wishes. Who looks inside, finds infinite wisdom.

There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for they were all friends or acquaintances, and they liked the same sort of things, and talked the same sort of talk. This is the real secret of pleasant society.

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.

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

We all have the power to change the emotions of the ones around us. A kind word could make someone’s day, just as a harsh one will bring pain. The secret is to know your own energy and use it to fill the room around you.

Unfortunately, our minds are our greatest assets, and our biggest flaws.

What others are doing or accomplishing is irrelevant to your growth.

If you talked to your friends the way you talk to your body, you’d have no friends left at all.

I can ruthlessly press my imagination out beyond its very edges, and even in such a remote place I have not begun to touch the barest periphery of God’s imagination.

The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.

Art brings you closer to whatever your present is, your own breathing being.

Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...

Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream.

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

Working is prayer for the likes of us,” his master often said. “It’s the way we commune with God.”
“Then how does He respond to us?” Jahan had once asked, way back when he was younger.
“By giving us more work, of course.