Quotes about Insight
I never learn anything from listening to myself.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first, to see it.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.
— Barbara Kingsolver
No matter what happens on God's green earth, Father acts like it's a movie he's already seen and we're just dumb for not knowing how it comes out.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Maggot calmed me down by explaining Bible stories were a category of superhero comics.
— Barbara Kingsolver
We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
— Stephen Covey
Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
— Stephen Covey
Just listen and seek to understand.
— Stephen Covey
Writing crystallizes thinking and distills meaning, and bridges the gap between the conscious and the unconscious.
— Stephen Covey
Maturity is the balance between courage and consideration.
— Stephen Covey
I am convinced we will discover and rediscover the truth of T. S. Eliot's observation: We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
— Stephen Covey
The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.
— Stephen Covey