Sentence examples for self insight from inspiring English sources

The men of the Bank of England, showing less than magnificent imagination, always put it down to women going off to have babies just when they're beginning to learn the game, and - a bit of useful self insight here - the Bank being lousy at helping them to reintegrate when they're ready to return.

A core purpose of the SETQ study is to assist faculty in increasing their self insight into their teaching.

This rarely inspires brilliance or self-insight.

Alzheimer's can also rob patients of self-insight -- the ability to recognize what is wrong with them.

("I wanted to be in that family," Shaw said, in one of his fits of self-insight. "I wanted to be the son").

And, where useful, we'll use the personality of our digital selves for both self-insight and growth, helping us lead more authentic lives but preventing others from using this information to manipulate or game us.

Lowell, for his part, saw himself as split between "conscience" and "instinct," a "queer centaurish creature" whose self-insight often arrived long after the fact, as though delivered by Pony Express.

Mr. Bell promised that new recording technologies would provide us with "enhanced self-insight, the ability to relive one's own life story in Proustian detail, the freedom to memorize less and think creatively more".

I called the film director James Toback, who made an acclaimed 2009 documentary about Tyson and has known him since they met on the set of Toback's "Pick-Up Artist" in 1986, to find out what I could about a man who came across in the film as both very present and elusive, weepy one minute and matter-of-fact the next, capable of self-insight but also hidden to himself.

Correlations between the EEG and subjective measures were highly significant for both groups, indicating good self-insight into increasing sleepiness.

We also found that, on the configural task, the effect of cognitive feedback was heightened by lower levels of participant self-insight.