Quotes About Insight

Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.'

Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read or encountered months or years earlier rather than in the last few days.

When I played 2 months in county cricket, I learnt a lot.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out.

Sometimes you read something, and you have to read more and more about the background.

In art, in music, in everything, I think the more you experience, the more people can empathize with you.

Accounting was the course that helped me more than anything.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

I learned the most important thing is to put yourself in the shoes of the players.

When I work with players, whether their level is higher or lower, for me the most important thing is to know the person, what is in their heart.

When I go to the DVD shop, I mostly buy documentaries because you learn a lot from documentaries.

Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.

I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.

Understanding history means knowing what motivates you.

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

I'm interested in character and people and motivations and things like that.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Necesitamos aprender de lo obvio, más que indagar en lo oculto. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

As Edmund Burke said, more than two centuries ago, "In history a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from past errors and infirmities of mankind." But he warned that the past could also be a means of "keeping alive, or reviving, dissensions and animosities.