Quotes About Insight

Doing field trips rather than simply researching online allows me to experience the story from the point of view of my main character; you can't get that by sitting at a desk.

It's true to say that once I've got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places.

I write books to open people's minds, to present new perspectives, to make people realize that what they think is obvious is not so obvious, that you can look at a trivial situation from a different angle and suddenly reveal other meanings and levels.

I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

People often ask me how I get so many unique experiences while they get none. I tell them the difference is in the sensitivity. I can observe those small emotions, which may look trivial to others.

To be honest, the Nidahas Trophy has taught me too many things. Actually, I learnt to how to stay neutral after that.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.

Knowledge is true opinion.