Quotes About Insight

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

I'd like to be able to experience things. That's the best thing for my work - to be somebody who does get to travel and observe people.

Be yourself. If something you do doesn't work, don't do it the next time. Listen to yourself - you know what appropriate behavior is.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

A work of art is a confession.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.

I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together and do astonishing things, and not just misunderstand each other and fight.

I always watch rushes. They give me a sense of whether I'm going in the right direction. You work hard and hopefully get encouragement from what you see.

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

To make headway, improve your head.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

Maybe if I point to my brain it will work.