Quotes About Insight

know yourself and you will win all battles

The wise warrior avoids the battle.

Life is like a puzzle, you do it correctly you come up with a clear picture.

Life is not earning but learning.

When I enter a Library ... I still have a reassuring sense that it is going to tell me all I need to know.

An audience doesn't have to know the precise events behind a character's Need, Public Persona, and Tragic Flaw. But the actor portraying that character does.

W. H. Auden used to say, rather pungently, that he could only truly "see" a poem once it's typed because "a man likes his own handwriting the way he likes the smell of his own farts.

We almost never know what we know until after we know it.

One of Karen's favorite authors...wrote a book that, once Karen had read it, enabled her to analyze her feeling-states as clearly as if they were passing through prisms, that didn't just make them visible but broke them down into all their components. Once you can do that, it's a challenge to not view other people as blind.

And F. Scott Fitzgerald: The sign of a first-rate intelligence is to be able to hold two opposing ideas at the same time and not have your head explode, he said. Maybe not those words exactly, but something like that.

The so-called incorrigibles were not the way people said they were. I found a lot of character in some of these people.

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.

Sometimes I don't even be realizing what's really going on. So sometimes you just gotta take a step back and soak it all in.

Being sober and clear-eyed changes everything.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.

The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

I've always thought it would be interesting to give insight on soccer because I have a lot of experience in my career.

I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer.

Getting to know Vixen has been an amazing learning experience, and I am glad that I am close to her so that I am able to be further educated on social issues and see them through her eyes.

If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.

Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.

We always say we are a brand for our fans because through social media we're so lucky to see what people are asking us for, what they're looking for, and so we really design what we like but also take our fans in mind.