Quotes About Insight

Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it.

IN THE MIND'S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

When people speak of the borderline between genius and madness, why is it so evident what they mean?

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

People who are great at making decisions in the face of uncertainty have great judgment.

We're supposed to be uncomfortable when we read something. That's how we learn.

We are at a time in history where everyone with any insight of the climate crisis that threatens our civilisation - and the entire biosphere - must speak out in clear language, no matter how uncomfortable and unprofitable that may be.

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

We underestimate children and the people who work with them. I swear - so often, I tell people I am a children's author, and it's like they want to pat me on the head: 'Aw, isn't that sweet.'

A film maker is a very intelligent man. Do not underestimate him.

The conclusion you first draw about someone is often informed merely by what you're bringing to it, and it will lead you to underestimating the full depth of the people you have so judged.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell's Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don't forget your ball of twine.

I learned a lot while working on 'Live From the Underground.'