Sentence examples for strokes of insight from inspiring English sources

This is precisely the kind of mental state that studies have linked to innovative ideas and strokes of insight.

I can learn how the world works without firsthand experience through the trial and error or strokes of insight of other people.

The first third of the production, inspired by "My Stroke of Insight," a memoir by Jill Bolte Taylor — a neuroanatomist who suffered a stroke — is laden with text.

Many of these ideas stem from the neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor's book "My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey," documenting her own stroke.

"My perception of physical boundaries was no longer limited to where my skin met air," she has written in her memoir, "My Stroke of Insight," which was just published by Viking.

In my later research, however, I realized that if I'd had a bleeding stroke, the kind that almost killed Jill Bolte Taylor — the neuroscientist who wrote "My Stroke of Insight" — the aspirin might've killed me.

"My Stroke of Insight" by Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor (Dr. Jill rehearsed this presentation 200 times before delivering it).

Harvard brain researcher Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor had this "stroke of insight" that has been viewed 15 million times on TED.com.

And that's when an office manager came to me begging for a better restaurant than Subway to feed her team of 30 for an all-hands meeting". It was at that moment that Lawrence had a stroke of insight.

But just because most of us aren't struck by a "blinding stroke of insight" that compels us to over-haul our life doesn't mean we can't take it upon ourselves to take a hard look at how we're "doing life". Gallop employee engagement surveys consistently find that a large majority of people go to work each day pushed along more by inertia than inspiration.

-- Jill Bolte Taylor in "My Stroke of Insight".