Quotes About Insight

I'm not shy about asking the customer, because I want to talk about who she is and what she wants from me.

Writing is an outlet, but it's not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.

I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly.

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.

Knowing where you have come from is important in forming an idea of where you want to go.

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

Experience is something you get when you don't really want it.

The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

If a customer walks out without shoes, you really want to find out why. 'It didn't fit' is not good enough.

It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director.

You know, I've learned that sometimes you can only see what you want to see by changing where you stand. And standing somewhere unexpected can lead to unexpected discoveries.

You can't make the people do what you want them to do. You've got to get everybody to see what you seein' or you gonna be a damn fool.

Comedy can reach many more people than, say, a serious lecture on the topic. And comedy might just be the access point to reach people who want to be entertained and also learn something.

I always tell people that if you really want to know somebody, they should listen to that person's interview with me. I spend a lot of time with my guests.

In fact, we actually listen to fans all the time. It's helpful because you want to get a sense of what people are looking for and what they disagree with.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider myself the guy you'd want to hire to do Star Trek.