Insight Quotes

"Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides."

- Rita Mae Brown

"In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality."

- Alfred Stieglitz

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."

- Steve Jobs

"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."

- Steve Jobs

"Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them."

- Steve Jobs

"Look inside any sister relationship, and you’ll find a wealth of interesting stories."

- Colleen Sell

"When you're down here in the crowd and you look up, it looks pretty big and you don't think about it too much. But when you get a different vantage point it changes your perspective."

- Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong

"No aspect of jiu jitsu is invented, only discovered. Every possible submission, sweep or throw already exists... progression is a matter of revelation, we have to learn to see what is there."

- Francisco Mansor

"I think the most valuable thing today I have, is to display and inform people [about] how important the invisible aspect of jiu jitsu is."

- Rickson Gracie

"I’ve been preaching the invisible jiu jitsu for a while, and now it becomes very appropriate to start to develop this kind of jiu jitsu which doesn’t translate in fight itself but translates in more self recognition."

- Rickson Gracie

"Catch him in between the movements."

- Xande Ribeiro

"The most important part of jiu-jitsu is the middle of the way. It’s the path between one position and another – the transition – that makes the difference between a mediocre fighter and an unbelievable fighter."

- Renzo Gracie

"It would be like asking a judo player to describe how he identifies the split second, where the opponent is in the exact right position to be thrown through the air. There are too many details for the conscious brain to observe and register so pure intuition takes over."

- Christian Graugart

"I’ve been preaching the invisible jiu-jitsu for a while, and now it becomes very appropriate to start to develop this kind of jiu-jitsu which doesn’t translate in the fight itself but translates in more self-recognition. It’s part of jiu-jitsu where you start to understand how a little shift of your angle can change the whole performance of your opponent. How a little timing or deflection, or connection, can really be positive in your engagement."

- Rickson Gracie

"The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash."

- Jim Murray

"In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent."

- Kobe Bryant

"If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do."

- Kobe Bryant

"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

"Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Music… can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."

- Leonard Bernstein

"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."

- Marcel Marceau

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."

- Victor Hugo

"I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."

- Igor Stravinsky

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

- Aldous Huxley

"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."

- Albert Einstein

"A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid."

- Stephen King

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them."

- Albert Einstein

"Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless."

- Thomas A. Edison

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."

- Winston Churchill

"Mornings are quiet, and that’s when smart thoughts speak up."