Quotes About Insight

People don't see much further than their noses.

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.

I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.

What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not interested in making conclusions. I would never think about myself or anyone else, 'Well, this happened, this happened, this happened, so this must be the result.' It doesn't work like that with me.

The customer doing something innovative is not interested in the size of your company but in whether you understand what he does.

I'm learning more and more from every reading that I do. When people come through they're not talking about heaven or hell, but I definitely see that there's a continuation of life and that we do still have the ability to connect to our loved ones and the love that we share with them.

When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.

I'm definitely a note taker.

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

You have to open the music, so to speak, and see what's behind the notes because the notes are the same whether it is the music of Bach or someone else.

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.

I love the idea that if you watch something twice, three times, four times, you'll continuously notice new things.

When I play, there are things throughout the game that I notice, especially rebounding.

I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

I don't feel bad about the fact that I notice if a lot of people laugh at a comic, and think, 'That worked; I'll do things like that more.'

There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.

It is scarcely a mark of intellectual profundity to have noticed that our society is big.

A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.