Quotes About Insight

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in work force, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are.

I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.

A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it - none of them pre-planned, and all of them very personal. Whatever they take away from the reading of the book is valuable.

The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that.

You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.

I like hearing from everybody and not just my co-screenwriters or producers. For example, while on set, I find it valuable to turn to my PA and ask, 'What do you think? Is this scene working? Do you like what you see? You got any ideas for that line there because that idea isn't working for me.'

Basketball is basketball, so from a strategic standpoint, having a players' perspective is valuable.

Every game you play, you gain. There's always valuable lessons.

For me, it was valuable just to be able to watch how Jeff operated every day, as well as his leaders and his direct reports.