Quotes about Insight

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true characters!

I am the best and sharpest critic of my own work. I know myself what is and what is not well written. Anyone who doesn't write doesn't know how wonderful it is.

Are most people so stingy and selfish? I've gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I've had enough for the present.

I've gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I've had enough for the present.

I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.

Are you willing to see what you are seeing, and to know what you know?

To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass—seeing things in such a narrow and darkly narcissistic way that it presents a colo-rectal theology, offering hope to no one.

The search for meaning will fill you with a sense of meaning. Otherwise

They taught me to pay attention, but not so much attention to my tiny princess mind.

Writing involves seeing people suffer and, as Robert Stone once put it, finding some meaning therein.