#insight

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#insight #more #nothing #terrible #than

As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. “No, we can’t do that.” “No, that’s not in the budget.” “No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar.” What kind of way is that to live? ↗

— Tina Fey

#life

The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#behind #building #championing #coalitions #colleagues

We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent. ↗

— Steve Vai

#base #branded #bring #dormant #favored

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

Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him. "Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her. "It takes a man with real heart" —he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest— "to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. ↗

— Clive Barker

#beauty

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#insight #nothing #terrible #without

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

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#defined #imitation #imperfect #insight #literature