Quotes about Insight
One of the reasons that problem solving is so difficult is that we are often too close to the problems to truly understand them.
— John Maxwell
A deaf ear is the first indication of a closed mind.
— John Maxwell
People say there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.
— John Maxwell
Perspective separates leaders and followers more than any other characteristic. Leaders see before followers do; they see beyond what followers do; and they see bigger than followers do.
— John Maxwell
If you want to tap into your discernment potential, work in your areas of strength.
— John Maxwell
Education makes all the difference.
— John Maxwell
But people of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener. For example, when Lyndon B. Johnson was a junior senator from Texas, he kept a sign on his office wall that read, "You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're doin' all the talkin'." And Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth American president, once said, "The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
— John Maxwell
Experience alone isn't a good enough teacher — evaluated experience is.
— John Maxwell
People can be in the same place sharing the same experience at the same time, but they can walk away from it having seen very different things.
— John Maxwell
to put it as philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson did, "To be simple is to be great.
— John Maxwell
Most good leaders want the perspective of people they trust.
— John Maxwell
You cannot separate your identity from your perspective. All that you are and every experience you've had color how you see things. It is your lens.
— John Maxwell