Quotes About Insight

I think the way I look at things gives me a different perspective. I'm most valuable when I work with a team of bright people who complement my weaknesses with their strengths.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

I think we work well when there are absolutely no distractions whatsoever, because we tend to come up with the best ideas around one or two in the morning, so you have to be plugging away.

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

A writer's work is to witness things.

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me. I know. I will give them a task of some type, and that task becomes the koan between us.

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

I enjoyed the army reserve, and I learned a lot from it, but I also... it helped me work out that I didn't want to live in that kind of closed environment.

I'm working so much I don't see the work of many young cartoonists so it's hard for me to tell which are my favourites. Maybe when I get to stick my head out of the sand I'll be able to let you know.

I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there.

I can't wait to wake up in the morning and listen to music in order to try to find something to work with.

These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.

I was one of the few people who thought Star Wars was going to work, and I hadn't even seen any special effects.

The people that know the industry better than anybody are the people who work in the industry.