Quotes About Insight

It took me a little while to get sorrow under the belt enough to understand country music's lyrics and strengths.

I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.

I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.

One of my strengths over the years is to be open-minded.

I do believe I have certain strengths as a female CEO, such as having another level of awareness through emotional intelligence.

To be a true leader, I needed to better understand my unique strengths and how to apply them across the company as we grew.

I think one of my strengths is kind of knowing people and getting a good read and a feel for what that person's strengths might be.

I understand my own strengths.

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

The reason I wanted to do 'Strictly' in the end is that you come out of it having learned something.

Inspiration can really strike from anywhere.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it.

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

Anytime you can see a hitter and face a hitter, you gain knowledge, and you gain that experience. Whether they hit a homerun off you, or you strike them out or whatever it is, it's information.

When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.

When you've got an extra gear in your head where that's all you do, you've constantly got a little radar up. ... And when something hits that strikes that beeper, hits that radar, it's like my song skills kick right in and go, 'Oh, OK, there's a song in that.' And then I start trying to figure it out.

I can't help it: when something strikes me, I write it down.

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

Every experience brings something. From one point, it is good because you know what to expect from this kind of opponent - what is her speed, her striking force.