Quotes About Insight

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.

My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying.

What I've understood is that to be funny is not my job. To see funny is my job.

The redefined M.D. is able to access the still, small voice that says I'm about to make a mistake - or I've just made one and I need to undo it before it's too late.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

We wrote the early idea for Undone' but it just wasn't working. Then Gwen had to go to England for some family stuff and when she was there, she sent me an email saying that she had an idea for what to do with Undone.' She sent me these demos and she was totally right, there was something there.

Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

Above all, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behaviors and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.

When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways?

Computers can't find the unexpected, but people can when they eyeball the data.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.

It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.

One of my rules for investing is, I don't invest in a deal where I don't think I have an unfair advantage and where I don't think I can personally impact the outcome.

As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the courts can never hope to have.

I'm a little bit too jumpy, when sometimes I should just sit back and let it unfold as it's supposed to and think about it before I jump in.