Quotes About Insight

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

The way plays happen, at least with me, it's spontaneous combustion of things you've had in your head.

I think it's always interesting to learn what the seemingly spontaneous one-nighter actually reveals about a character.

We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.

When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.

I grew up in a house where I was a spectator to the sport of cooking. In that way, I just learned so much about what it really takes to make food.

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

I know my game pretty well, and that is the secret to success in most sports.

It's good for your career as a sportsman if you watch other professional sports - how they're behaving and how they react in difficult situations.

They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

I can spot a homosexual at forty paces.

Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.

You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.

I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.

I have a gift: I'm very lucky to be able to spot when a person is special.

I've got a good set of eyeballs on me, so I can spot talent.

If I'm not moved from one spot to another, internally, while I'm witnessing it, reading it, consuming it, whatever, I don't know why we're being asked to the party.

Everyone has blind spots, and even the brightest people are no exceptions.

It's important for a leader to hear about his blind spots on a regular basis so working on them is periodically top of mind.

The most interesting thing about characters are their blind spots. They miss the periphery.

I participated in every spring musical my school did while attending: 'Pippin,' 'Little Shop of Horrors,' 'Once on This Island,' and 'Hair.' The great thing about those projects was that I was able to work with my peers who were allowed to work professionally and gained some insight as to what it might be like to work with pros.

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.