#insight

It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#countries #drawback #insight #interest #into

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#attributes #combine #efforts #encouraging #enthusiasm

Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#attractive #conditions #creates #different #half

I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes. ↗

— Edward Witten

#better #black #black holes #field #holes

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#absurd #admirable #agreed #barack #barack obama

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#comes #enough #his #insight #limitations

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#insight #nothing #terrible #without

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

#into #many #master #one thing #same

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem. ↗

— Dexter Gordon

#about #being #communicate #composition #depriving

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint. ↗

— Don Henley

#album #before #between #each #fresh