Quotes About Insight

It made perfect sense, and at the same time nothing seemed to.

I just tell people what they already know, but are afraid to admit to themselves.

Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.

People in pain don't always see things as clearly as they should

It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.

The past is the past. You cannot change it, but you can learn from it.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Here's what else I've learned: Age doesn't guarantee wisdom, any more than age guarantees intelligence.

But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and

I know that's not a popular notion—don't we frequently regard our elders as wise partially because they're gray and wrinkled?—but lately I've come to believe that some people are born with the capacity to become wise while others aren't, and in some people, wisdom seems to be evident even at a young age. My

while there's a lot that I don't know about the world, I do know that kids have a funny way of helping you keep things in perspective.

It wasn't as if a light had suddenly blinked on; it was more like a sunrise, where the sky grows lighter and lighter, almost imperceptibly, before you realized it was morning.

Now, you watch cable news, and you know what everybody's going to say before they open their mouth.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

Seeing is in itself a movement.

If you can find a way your character moves, you know more about your character than you'd ever dream.

I always write about something that moves me.

One of the lessons learned in the Middle East is to never try to anticipate the other side's moves.

Your mind is just constantly moving, thinking of different scenarios, not only on your team but their team too, trying to figure out things they are doing.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece.