Sharp Insight Quotes

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.

I've heard everything that anybody can make up or spin, and I know how to cut right through and get to the heart of any issue.

Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

I never hesitated to promote someone I didn't like. The comfortable assistant - the nice guy you like to go on fishing trips with - is a great pitfall. Instead I looked for those sharp, scratchy, harsh, almost unpleasant guys who see and tell you about things as they really are. If you can get enough of them around you, and have patience enough to hear them out, there is no limit to where you can go.

If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

A thought must tell at once, or not at all.

He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.

Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no technique, no program, just a sharp mind in touch with the situation.

Magic is the power within oneself. You have enough strength and exertion and energy to view things as they are, personally, properly, and directly. You have the chance to experience the brightness of life and the haziness of life, which is also a source of power. The fantastically sharp-edged quality of life can be experienced personally and directly. There is a powerful sense of perception available to you.

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.