Quotes About Insight

Jon Gruden taught me the foundation of what I know about this game. Took me under his arm, taught me to see it from a big-picture perspective.

I don't keep a journal.

I try and journal every day, and that's where a lot of my lyric comes from.

I've done projects where I've read 25 books and did all kinds of journal and character work for hours.

Journalism is about bringing people to an event or something that they couldn't attend.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

I love journalism.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.

It's not easy, but I truly that think being a good listener is an important part of being a good journalist.

I am not a journalist or an academic.

I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask.

I don't end up writing songs in my journals, but I'm sure that my ability to write songs has been helped by how consistently and impulsively I try to get my life into words through the journals.

As your journey goes on, you're continuously learning from everyone.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

I like intellectual journeys.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

Don't judge a book by its thickness either.

I've learned that you really cannot judge a book by its cover.

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.