Quotes About Insight

I work on the show every day, even when we aren't on the air. I'm compiling quotes from around the league, digging through clips. 'Chris Paul said this, that might spark a good conversation.' I'm looking at numbers, offensive and defensive efficiency.

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

I work a lot on words, so if I hear a word or see a word or a phrase or a sentence that someone says to me it just immediately sparks a concept.

I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.

I actually did a lot of interviews with Benjamin Bratt, and I learned a lot about him in all of those 60 something interviews that we did, because it was a junket. He speaks very well, and I learned that from him.

Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.

Anyone who looked at something special, in a very original way, makes you see it that way forever.

I have many friends in Special Forces, and the amazing thing about these guys is how quickly they can read someone.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on 'Mastermind'.

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.