Quotes About Insight

It's one thing to turn up and jump around stage and give people a good time - that's obviously a big part of this - but I'll always get deeper than that as an artist.

The biggest piece of advice I have is - listen. Don't jump to the answer or what you think the answer is. The more you listen, the more you learn.

Generally, when I am working, I tend to learn from my seniors and juniors.

I learnt a lot from eating junk food.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

It's very important for people to know what gives them meaning. But it's hard for people to figure out if you're not connecting with yourself and taking the time to just be introspective and daydream.

Don't think too hard. Just be present, and things will reveal themselves.

Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it.

In general, men are just kind of slow and dumb. We just figure things out later.

I'm a director first and foremost, and I hope that the fact that I'm female is just one of the many things that informs my unique perspective on the world.

It's just something I've always loved to do: talk basketball. It's easy for me to give my perspective, my analyst approach to it, because even when I played, I would watch film, talk about the game.

For me, what's important is to be inspired and keep moving to grow as an artist and as a person.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.

I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.

I was a writer. I wrote on the show. We were in the writer's room and by about episode five, I started to think: 'I really understand Roy Kent. I really understand Roy Kent. I think Roy Kent is within me.'

I learned a lot at Kentucky.

When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.

Inspiration is the key to everything.

Education is the key to the future.

The key to why things change is the key to everything.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.