Quotes About Insight

I really find comfort in watching film and obtaining knowledge and I use statistics and computer generated stuff to help me get those stats. That was probably a result of my father's influence on me at a young age.

I definitely learned a lot at a very young age.

There's a certain trope in young adult fiction. A young girl gets cancer and becomes this radiant person who's a fountain of insight. Everyone who encounters her is changed for the better. That doesn't happen all the time. The whole thing is much more difficult to process. Adults have trouble with it, so why shouldn't we expect teens to?

If you're an old cat around young girls, you got to have somethin' to bring to the table.

The fact that Phil Jackson asked a young kid when he didn't have to and said, 'Hey, do I have permission to coach you?' Those are very powerful lessons that you learn. That's only happened to me a couple times in my entire career, that coaches would actually ask me that question. That just lets me know that he saw me for who I was.

I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.

An older guy, he's going to show you things that a young man can't show you. He's going to show you how to stay alive. He's going to show you how to turn corners where your young friends will show you how to turn right into that wall, you know what I'm saying?

They say that love is blind, but it's trauma that's blind. Love sees what is.

I grew up in a pretty economically safe, physically safe household, and, you know, now my life is defined by other people's trauma and by other people's emotional experience with it, and I think I'm richer for that, frankly.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing.

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.

I've traveled around the world.

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

I'm very observant. So, my mentor is really basically a lot of people who are just around me and life itself. Just living and going different places and traveling.

I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world.

Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.

You learn a lot from traveling around.