Quotes About Insight

Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.

Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.

If you're in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what's going on around you.

My understanding of the world is all through the prism of martial arts. It's affected every aspect of my life.

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

Doing a film with somebody who's from a different country or culture than you is very fulfilling because they bring with them different insights, experiences, cultural norms, and expectations. All of those things can sort of broaden your own understanding of things or provide a different perspective.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

Being lieutenant governor is sort of like being invited into everyone's living room, and you just get an understanding of the state.

Science is a quest for understanding.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

The biographer has two lives: The one she leads, and the one she ultimately understands.

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

I think Nat's an amazing actor... He understands things about acting that most people don't.

As much as a man would like to believe that he understands women, there is simply that much that he can write from their point of view or really understand them.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.