Quotes About Insight

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.

I don't want riders who work physically hard. Work by thinking.

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.

Every good work should have at least ten meanings.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts.

The only way to win is to work, work, work, work, and hope to have a few insights

When a watch is broken you take it apart to analyze what is wrong with it. When a technique does not work, if you analyze it carefully you can always find out what is wrong.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work