Sentences with phrase «flash of insight»

If the word «revelation» can still be used, then it may apply equally well to those unexpected flashes of insight received in any field of study.

This was not a sudden flash of insight offered from the bench to the surprise of counsel who had never considered the matter in that light before.

I'm currently exploring presence of mind for flashes of insight.

I do not think he was a great philosopher, but he had some great flashes of insight.

I had this amazing flash of insight last night that I could pick my clothes out the night before and save some time the next morning.

In an unexpected flash of insight a few weeks ago, I had a thought that has some relevance here.

Apparently Derek received a geometric flash of insight into Earth's shape.

Love is a Four - Letter Word: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts, a new collection edited by Michael Taeckens, offers flashes of insight from well - known writers about love gone wrong.

It's rare to find a successful one whose journey hasn't been characterized as much by stress, risk and insane hours as it has been by flashes of insight and triumphant wins.

While frequently heavy with longeurs, each of the chapters is also filled with brilliant flashes of insight.

Whitehead's genius is evident in the intuitive flashes of insight which are not only brilliant in themselves but are also consistent with his metaphysical system.

Sleep also appears to boost creative powers, producing flashes of insight upon awakening — especially among those who enter REM sleep (a stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movement).

But I had flashes of insight through that period, and deep inside I knew that if after a decade, I wasn't successful, it was no one's fault but my own.

Eric Cantor's flashes of insight notwithstanding, the biggest roadblock to a populist limited government politics is the size, wealth, self - confidence, and insularity of the Republican operative and lobbyist classes.

Drawn from learning that is both vast and profound, the rich details and frequently exciting flashes of insight provided by this work confirm the stature of Robert Jenson among contemporary theologians» a stature that, it seems to this foreign observer, is not sufficiently recognized in American theology.

The Romance stage really depends, as does its counterpart Generalization, on chance flashes of insight.

When you see it you can't help remember that before he was struck down in a blinding flash of insight, Paul was one arrogant man.

A better interpretation of these passages might be to recognize that Whitehead is expressing flashes of insights as he thinks about the functions of God from such a metaphysical view.

«Our understanding of the genome will not come in a single flash of insight.

Flashes of insight still show through on occasion, but the navel - gazing (and often inappropriate fawning) of his pieces can be hard to take.

For me, my experience with Link's Awakening was about getting that one major flash of insight and then using that to understand the rest of the game and then the rest of the Zelda series.

The poet leader of this international group, André Breton, defined Surrealism in terms of heightened contrasts between two or more distant realities to achieve vital and surprising flashes of insight, after an initial period of free association.

If paintings and sculptures represented the grand narratives of fine art, she said, drawings were often the original flashes of insight that led to them — the «intimate, direct and experimental state of an artist's creative process,» as she put it.

The 2013 Nobel Prizes in chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine are all potent reminders that science, though studded with the occasional brilliant flash of insight, almost always takes years of persistent toil to move forward.

The idea came to me, as it had come to Darwin, in a sudden flash of insight: it was thought out in a few hours — was written down with such a sketch of its various applications and developments... then copied on thin letter - paper and sent off to Darwin — all within one week.

Keep it beside your bed for flashes of insight, advice that reminds you of your own magnificence, and activity sheets to help you access your best self.

Less than half a second later, electrodes that were attached to the subjects» foreheads — right above their frontal lobes — picked up a pulse that came with the flash of insight.

New ideas sometimes seem to appear as a flash of insight.

I read this article and wondered what practical use these folks might be, and I had a flash of insight.

That flash of insight, that glimmer of hope comes to us sometimes in fragments, the poet seems to suggest, a «loop in time,» when in spite of our spiritual drought and the church's ineffective attempts to bring Christ to us, he comes anyway.

But this kind of caution is perfectly compatible with Whitehead's own confidence that «there is no first principle which is in itself unknowable, not to be captured by a flash of insight.

Sometimes it comes as a flash of insight in my mind.

It's not something that you discover all at once, and it usually doesn't come in a flash of insight or mountain - top experience.

Then as you read, your mind is opened and a flash of insight jumps off the page as if it came from Jesus Himself.

According to this theory, the mind - reading skills necessary for Machiavellian deception come in a flash of insight during early childhood.

Hence the name, I reckoned in a flash of insight.

As part of his research there, Cox studied bats, and that work led him to a flash of insight.

One of Einstein's greatest inspirations, as he later recalled, occurred during a flash of insight in 1907: «For an observer falling freely from the roof of a house there exists — at least in his immediate surroundings — no gravitational field.»

The processes leading to that flash of insight can illuminate many of the human mind's curious characteristics.

Insight problems are those for which methodical, algorithmic thinking don't yield a solution and depend instead on flashes of insight.

Wolves, with their larger brains, are more prone to flashes of insight, allowing them to solve problems on their own; dogs, with smaller brains, excel at using humans to help them.

Their results (pdf) hint at how we recognize faces: not in a flash of insight, as it may seem, but by building up recognition on a neurological assembly line.

Talk about a flash of insight.

Finally Archimedes, with a flash of insight (Eureka!)

On the 40th anniversary of the first internet connection, a look back on how a flash of insight and a 20 - minute meeting got it all started.