Quotes About Insight

To invent is to discern, to choose.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.

Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if it's not there - you try and learn what makes people behave in a certain way.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

The more you know about your country, your people, you invest better in your craft.

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

We try not to have many investing 'rules,' but there is one that has served us well: If we decide we were wrong about something, in terms of why we did it, we exit, period.

Successful investing is all about common sense.

Great investments may look crazy but really may not be.

To be a good investor, you have to think differently from others.

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

I don't have to spend a lot of time figuring out, 'Gosh, I wonder how guys feel,' because most every piece of art I look at invites me into that experience.

To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D.

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

The information I have about Iran is second hand.

I'm not an Iran expert.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

Anything I do informs how I design. I wouldn't isolate any one activity. Everything I do feeds back to my life, and my life is expressed in my work.

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight and give you ideas on how to make change.

I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.