Quotes About Insight

I'm good at observing people, physical stuff, which leant itself to acting.

I think that's something that people don't realize enough about when they get into comedy - it's not just about sitting back and observing and saying something funny.

A lot of being a comedian is about observing people.

I think the best time to learn things is when you're hurt. Just sitting back and observing to see how you can be effective in certain parts of the games is important.

A lot of human learning comes from unsupervised learning where you're just sort of observing the world around you and understanding how things behave.

I have understood by observing blind people that they are very confident. They don't see themselves as suffering from a disability.

I believe in observing and absorbing life.

If you obsess about one thing, you're just going to miss the broader picture.

As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.

Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.

Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.

Obviously, we all look at things through the filter of our own experiences.

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

All there is to thinking, he said, is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.