#insight

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#claims #culture #drowned #each #education

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#because #happened #hardly #humorous #insightful

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#behavior #film #funny #his #history

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#affectionate #communication #insight

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#brotherly #destruction #excuse #insight #into

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#artist #content #creates #distillation #experience

I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#efficient #good #i #information #insight

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#blow #budget #difference #game #go

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#success