Quotes About Insight

My mom is the all-seeing eye in the sky. And she definitely doesn't lie. She knows exactly what I'm doing right or wrong, because she taught me everything I know.

How can someone who has never been slapped in the face talk about the greatest fighter of all times?

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.

It's an interesting education to listen to cricket commentary when you're not at the game. When you're there, which is most of the time for me, it flows over you. But when you're not there, you look at it in a slightly different way. You pick up things.

I took my sister to an ITV event once and it was good to see everything through her eyes as I had perhaps become slightly jaded.

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.

I think there's a danger of becoming too familiar with things, isn't there? That you kind of, when you're used to seeing the same things every day, you see those things come what may, and you don't see maybe the interesting things just slightly out of view behind them.

I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.

I have a slightly crap blog where I opine on anything that occurs to me and run the occasional silly competition.

We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.

I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help.

I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified.

I think I'm ever so slightly behind myself and I don't know what would make me feel in possession of all the facts.

Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.

Look at the putt from behind the hole. Everyday players almost never do this. They should! Your eyes will take in more information about the slope. Sometimes you'll find that your initial read was incorrect.

If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

How quick are we to learn: that is, to imitate what others have done or thought before. And how slow to understand: that is, to see the deeper connections.

When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.

I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world.