Quotes About Insight

I started seeing how I wanted my story to be told. Going to jail is one of the best things that happened to me. It helped me get my mind right.

When I was researching my book 'The 33 Strategies of War', I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.

When I was shooting for 'Ankahee,' I had to visit the women's ward of a mental hospital to study the role.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.

If you throw a frog in boiling water, he'll just hop out. But if you put him in warm water and slowly amp up the temperature, he won't notice and end up boiled.

Global warming is my personal experience.

I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.

People try to warn you about certain things, but sometimes you have to experience those things yourself.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately. That's just a warning. To everyone.

I have never met an intelligent optimist. That is not to say I think pessimism makes you intelligent, but I have always felt like an Old Testament Jeremiah or Cassandra from ancient Greece. I want to run down the streets warning people.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

I was one of the only Democrats that was warning just how popular Trump would be.

Are artists the canaries in the mine, warning of the coming explosion before anyone else? It's hard to look at the world before 1914 and not wonder if they somehow felt a catastrophe was bearing down on them and their societies.

The failures that you beat yourself up over are the ones where you experienced warning signs and can connect the dots backwards after the fact.

Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

'The Princess and the Warrior' is looking at the same things as 'Lola' - just from a different angle.

I learned more on 'Spirit Warriors' than I think I have on any other job.

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.