Quotes About Insight

I love being around kids. I couldn't figure out why all these 70-year-olds wanted to hang out with me when I was 27. Now I understand, and I'm trying to steal their energy from them like they stole from me at the time.

When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

After 2019, one thing that really stood out to me was, early on, not going too hard at the ball and allowing myself to get in without too much risk.

Never stop listening to people at all levels of the company. Be physically out and about so that you always have your finger on the pulse and know, at the ground level, the truth of how people are feeling.

Never stop listening to your audience.

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.

The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.

The day I left baseball, I became smart. When I was in baseball, I played for the love of the game. I'd sign any contract they gave me. But then I stopped playing and began doing interviews with the players at the ball park. I began to see the light.

Trump could teach Republicans in Washington a lot if only they stopped posturing long enough to watch carefully.

When you know your history, you have a better vision of where you're going. And, when you have that, there's no stopping you.

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

The fact that this radiation is so penetrating - nothing stops it - makes it so you can look for things that you have never seen before, and you can look at things you know in a way that's new. That is really the big step forward.

I may be the only shark who hasn't been on QVC, but I have learned a lot from those folks about what it takes to get a product on store shelves.

If you think you know the consumer better than anyone, then you're in real trouble. So we take a close watch. You spend time in stores.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Given a little time for the pain to subside, dreadful experiences often can be the basis of funny jokes or stories.

True stories are way more interesting.

Maybe I'm not the right person to do it... but I've learned that I have some power to help stories be told the way they naturally need to be told.

All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.

It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us to hell.