Quotes About Insight

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

Artwork, films, TV - it's always informed my work, no matter what I'm working on.

I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.

On TV, teachers are comedically jaded. That's not how I saw them.

TV news is not very instructive.

I have a special ability to spot TV shows that don't go past two seasons; that's my gift.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

There is a place for the hot take. There is a place for the tweet.

I'm on Twitter. I love Twitter because I'm kind of voyeuristic. I don't tweet, but I look at other people's.

I didn't see any Broadway till I was in my late twenties.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

When I was doing stand-up, I was about twenty, and I really think that that's a little too young. I didn't have a whole lot of life experience to draw on.

I spent twenty years in the Army; of course it's going to color the things I talk about. If anyone spends twenty years doing anything, that's going to play a part in who you are as a human being.

If you feel depressed, go and buy twenty books about depression. Learn about it; find out how it works.

I think something that is never really spoken about is the learning process of making records - I made my first record at twenty one and learned so much about record making from that before making 'Bomb In A Birdcage' a couple of years later.

'Chewing Gum Dreams' should make you look twice at the girl shouting on the bus and not just cuss her off from your life.

I don't like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or twice, and you realize something's missing. So I'll play with it until it makes sense.

My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior.

I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.

Many business intuitions and expertise are going to be valuable; they are telling you something useful, and you want to take advantage of them.

Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where the future of business and civilization is going.