Quotes About Insight

For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.

Period pieces hold up a mirror to the world that we live in.

I think what's so brilliant about 'Black Mirror' is that it is a mirror into our own messed-up psyches.

As an actor, I think it is my responsibility to hold a mirror to the society.

I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words.

It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good comes of this is not yet listening.

If you look at the greatest performances of women, they're usually older... Anne Bancroft in 'The Graduate,' Kathy Bates in 'Misery.' It's a matter of characters having a life experience that makes them interesting.

We learn by misfortune.

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.

What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something.

If you aren't listening, you are missing out.

I have learned that if I only see and deeply appreciate one side of an argument, it means I am probably missing something important.

I really like the mission at SurveyMonkey, which is, we help people make better decisions. It's just a great thing.

With COBE, we can see things before the lights came on. While we probably will not rewrite the book of cosmology with this mission, we will write another chapter.

He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

You learn something every time you make a mistake.

People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.

I just learn from other people's mistakes.

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.