Insight : (311) " That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you. " - Paul Gleason " Facebook and Twitter have a ton of information they’re trying to make sense of. " - Chad Hurley " We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us. " - Vernon Howard " Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. " - Henri Bergson " Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed. " - John Gregory Dunne " Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he’s just really doesn’t have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it’s difficult and what he’s really doing. " - Shannyn Sossamon " I started thinking about what I’ve always been interested in: how people can’t see things that are right in front of them. All you have to do is read the papers to see endless examples of smart people who can’t see the nose on their faces. " - Jean Hanff Korelitz " We must learn the correct lessons from the U.S. war on terror, which, far from making the U.S., its citizens and interests safe across the world has only increased insecurity worldwide and has led to many more terror attacks on U.S. interests and citizens across the world. " - Prashant Bhushan " I don’t think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don’t think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish. " - Lady Gregory " And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. " - Adam Weishaupt