Quotes About Insight

The longer you live, the smarter you get because you've been around. You've seen things. You've gone through different emotional experiences in your own life, and hopefully, you understand things better. And that makes you a better actress.

You have to be as smart as you can be, not smarter. You don't need to be smarter than you are.

As you get older, you're just smarter.

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

You don't have to always be the smartest person in the room, but if you listen and absorb what you are hearing, you will be ahead of the game.

I have interacted with several top leaders. Modi is among the three smartest leaders I have met.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.

My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.

The smartest guys are the best broadcasters.

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

I always spend a good deal of time with the people I write about. I try and smell the normalcy of their lives. I try to look at the normal rhythm of their life.

How do you project a character if you don't have a sense of where she is from? I've always just gotten on a plane to go to the area to get a sense of what it is like, to smell it, feel the earth, hear people talk, go to the marketplaces.

Jake 'The Snake,' getting the chance to talk to him all day and just picking his brain - you know, he has his demons, but he's an intelligent person, and he knows the business like no other.

I had a moment - and I don't know if it was funny, necessarily, but I realized the effect I could have on people - when I was doing a production of 'The Little Prince,' and I played the snake.

An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless.

Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.

Country fans can sniff out phony from a mile away.

I'm not the first person to say this, but communication at 'SNL' - I don't want to say it's not good, but unless you ask questions, you will not know what's going on.

I've learned a lot about business from snowboarding: how companies run, how the game works.

You coach your own system for so many years, that's all you ever know. To be able to step inside and see how others do it was very beneficial.

We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.