Quotes About Insight

I'm from Sacramento, and I have no idea what growing up in a city is like.

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

Unless you have kids, you actually have no idea what kids are watching on TV these days.

What we have found is that because of smartphones and access to media, and because everybody knows how everyone else lives, you have no idea where the next huge social movement is going to erupt.

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

My drama teacher when I was a kid called me 'Zawe the activist' and I had no idea why. Now I've got older I can see why she always saw that in me.

If you read people great then you can become a great No Limit Hold 'Em player.

Understanding others meant understanding yourself—

wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition

He still wasn't sure exactly when it happened...It wasn't as if a light suddenly blinked on; it was more like a sunrise, where the sky grows lighter and lighter almost imperceptibly before you realized it was morning. page 147

There is no teaching, there is only learning' over and over.

I shall look at the world through tears. Perhaps I shall see things that dry-eyed I could not see.

anthology knowledge isn't real knowledge.

The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.

It takes a child to say the unsayable.

I can see that now. I can see everything once it's already happened — I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

When someone uses the phrase 'the prick one', and you know immediately that this is a synonym for the word 'metaphorically', you are entitled to wonder whether you know the speaker too well. You are even entitled to wonder whether you should know her at all.

But Tony was a storyteller, and he knew that if you looked at any narrative closely enough you could trace the unraveling back and back and back—right to the very beginning, if the story was good enough.

I can see everything once it's already happened--I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

It was almost as if he had been given a glimpse of what it was like to be human. It wasn't too bad, really; he wouldn't even mind being human on full-time basis

It was funny how you could still know little things about people, like where they kept their tin, even though you didn't know what they were thinking from one week to the next.

I can see everything once it's already happened—I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

You want to talk about big things, but it's the catches on the garden sheds and the London Zoo cards that give you the footholds; without them you wouldn't know where to start.

You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done.