Quotes About Insight

In terms of whether my mom was influential, I think she instilled a certain way of thinking in me quite early: having a reflective mindset regarding my actions and trying to find the underlying reasons to behavior. I think that's quite helpful when you're trying to understand a character.

On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions.

When there is a problem, always identify and evaluate your underlying assumptions that may be contributing to the problem or preventing you from seeing the problem clearly.

An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.

What I hope 'Mastry' ends up doing is completely undermining or doing away with the notion that artists are a savant: that they do things that can't be articulated, driven by inner turmoil they don't have access to.

I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.

My interest is in turning over a rock and seeing what's underneath. It's a personality trait more than anything; it's what made me want to become a crime reporter, even though I was not suited for it personality-wise.

Common sense is often underrated.

Watching football is such an underrated thing to help you grow as a player.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

You have to get under the hood and spend some quality time with someone to understand what they're really good at.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought to anything, and comprehend everything. 'Blessed hands' is the name bestowed on these fortunate beings. The world envies, honours and respects them.

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.

In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played - the part he acted - and we must also know his audience.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

When I prepare for a role, I try to get inside the character's head and understand him.

Human beings understand too much.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

If you would judge, understand.