Quotes About Insight

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

I'm very good at solving mysteries.

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

It's amazing what some people read into songs.

An outsider can see some things much better.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Some things get clearer as you look back on them.

I can say you do get some things out of losing a game.

No one paid me to bite their butt - we're not going that far. But I've gone to some places, I've seen some things.

In the beginning, I wasn't quite sure what '29' was. I just knew I needed to get some things off my chest.

There are some things you gain with experience, but age isn't important to me.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

When I'm writing fiction, I'm sort of interested by the fact that somehow or other I can have the feeling of actually seeing things through someone else's eyes.