Quotes About Insight

I think my work is like a spiral: you keep coming back on yourself, but you're at a different place. It's like reading 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' every five years. You realise that some things have caught up.

On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.

I think religion is a gateway for spiritual awakening.

I do have a sense of spirituality.

My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor.

Spirituality gives you better understanding of the commercial world.

When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.

You go to Africa, and you see how things are over there. Spiritually, it opens you up.

All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

I actually spoke to all the national team players who play in the Premier League, asking about what the league is like and the style of play. It's one thing watching it on the TV, but being involved in it every day is another thing.

The first time I spoke to Avram Grant, my first question was about his conception of football. He gave me his answer and it was a good point.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

At Somerset I played with Marcus Trescothick who has spoken very openly about his battle with depression and anxiety. I had a few conversations with him about his problems but I also read his book which provided me with a great insight into what he went though.

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

I have always known a thing before it happens.

For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.