#insight

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine. ↗

— Woody Allen

#philosophy #insight

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 actions. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#civilization #consequences #environment #foresight #insight

This is [her] soul group.’ What do you mean?’ It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely. ↗

— James Redfield

#soul #insight

Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated. ↗

— Jill Bolte Taylor

#validation #insight

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored. ↗

— Brian Greene

#science #understanding #science

Everyone is a fuckin' Napoleon. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#insight #humor

The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman --a matter of millimetres. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#golf #insightful #beauty

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#humor #insightful #humor

...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#insightful #humor

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old? ↗

— Margaret Mead

#insight #psychology #love