#insight

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

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#broadest #convincing #dinosaurs #eventually #explanations

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#change #damn #damn thing #did #got

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

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

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them. ↗

— Keith Henson

#games #insight #into #killing #least

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#argue #back #because #could #creative

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. ↗

— Herodotus

#into #man #much #nothing #over

Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#death

Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True beauty grips your gut and squeezes your lungs, and makes you see with utmost clarity exactly what is before you. True wisdom then steps in, to interpret, illuminate, and form a life-altering insight. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#beauty #constant #constants #eternal #eternity