#insight

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Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.


Clare B. Dunkle


#insightfulness #intelligence #politeness #beauty

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. I guess it was just because I was really into music as a child, and I wanted it to say more. It was the thing, wasn't it? And now it isn't.


Jarvis Cocker


#before #child #first #guess #i

The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity.


Allan Lokos


#death-and-dying #insight #inspiration #death

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.


Marshall McLuhan


#insight #luxury #point #point of view #substituted

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.


Marshall McLuhan


#arts #becomes #collective #direction #increasingly

It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.


Henry Reed


#changes #constructive #dream #dreams #easier

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

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

Actual message in letter I mailed: Congrats on getting married! Here’s a hundred-dollar gift certificate to Amazon.com. You could buy something practical, or you could buy 101 copies of my .99 cents ebook. Just kidding—I didn’t mean to imply that buying 101 copies of my book was impractical. 



Jarod Kintz


#books #gift-certificate #impractical #insightful #letter

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.


Melanie Klein


#beginner #capacity #child #children #even