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1. “This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.”

Charles Lamb

Writing, Art, Expression, Insight, Wisdom

2. “When a manager asks you a question, it is because they need to know the answer. When a leader asks you a question, it is because you need to know the answer.”

Ankur Warikoo

Leadership, Questions, Growth, Management, Insight

3. “The solution to the problem lies in the problem, not the solution!”

Ankur Warikoo

Problem-solving, Perspective, Clarity, Insight, Focus

4. “A computer can tell you down to the dime what you’ve sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.”

Sam Walton

Data, Sales, Potential, Limitations, Insight

5. “We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.”

Alvin Toffler

Expertise, Vision, Perspective, Problem-solving, Insight

6. “Certain ideas overwhelm us by their simplicity.”

V.S. Naipaul

Ideas, Simplicity, Insight, Understanding, Perception

7. “The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.”

Jack Ma

Opportunity, Vision, Insight, Risk, Entrepreneurship

8. “If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Insight, Wisdom, Impermanence, Mindfulness, Awareness

9. “Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Perception, Suffering, Meditation, Awareness, Insight

10. “Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Meditation, Insight, Action, Awareness, Wisdom

11. “Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Meditation, Insight, Understanding, Compassion, Action

12. “In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power of concentration, bringing forth deep insight and awakening. Mindfulness is the base of Buddhist practice.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Buddhism, Mindfulness, Insight, Awakening, Concentration

13. “When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Moment, Reality, Insight, Peace, Liberation

14. “You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Interconnection, Happiness, Suffering, Insight, Responsibility

15. “Everything inside and around us wants to reflect itself in us. We don’t have to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will reveal themselves in the still water of our heart.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Truth, Reflection, Stillness, Awareness, Insight

16. “When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Compassion, Insight, Awareness, Understanding, Perspective

17. “Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Buddhism, Suffering, Confrontation, Insight, Healing

18. “Silence is an answer to a wise man.”

Plutarch

Silence, Wisdom, Understanding, Thought, Insight

19. “The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.”

Plutarch

Evil, Experience, Strategy, Insight, Wisdom

20. “Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.”

Plutarch

Apothegms, Reflection, Truth, Wisdom, Insight

21. “Free and profound thought, which strives towards the comprehension of life, and a complete scorn for the foolish vanity of the world – man has never known anything higher than these two blessings.”

Anton Chekhov

Thought, Wisdom, Philosophy, Insight, Life

22. “The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.”

Anton Chekhov

Writing, Truth, Clarity, Analysis, Insight

23. “The most delicious of all pleasures is the pleasure of comprehension.”

Stendhal

Knowledge, Understanding, Learning, Pleasure, Insight

24. “To Seneca, as Letter XC and other letters plainly show, the philosopher and the wise man were the same person.”

Seneca

Philosophy, Wisdom, Knowledge, Learning, Insight

25. “Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.”

Hippocrates

Knowledge, Medicine, Science, Insight, Wisdom

26. “As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!”

Sophocles

Mind, Soul, Perception, Wisdom, Insight

27. “Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications – just the sudden glimpse itself.”

Chogyam Trungpa

Awareness, Watchfulness, Perception, Insight, Mindfulness

28. “Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.”

Chogyam Trungpa

Awakening, Clarity, Self-Awareness, Insight, Mindfulness

29. “The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.”

Alice Walker

Loneliness, Perspective, Society, Reflection, Insight

30. “On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.”

Alice Walker

Spirituality, Insight, Vision, Perspective, Awareness

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