Quotes About Insight

You have to go to other countries to realize Taipei is a place where there is diversity of thought.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

We feel it's really interesting to see how our music translates to such a broad audience.

I truly believe the importance of shining the light on the dark corners of our world.

If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

There's vultures out here. You need to listen and learn.

When you write a lot of songs, sometimes you don't have a place for them, and you need an outlet for them.

I don't have to stand back as an outsider to look at society.

It's interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It's a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging.

It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

I can't be objective about my work, because I am so involved that I can't see it as a product to be judged. I can't see it as an outsider.

In my life, I've been able to really examine society in a way most people who aren't outsiders don't get a chance to do.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

My strength is that I know the game so well. Whatever shortcomings I had because of lack of experience, I could always overcome those because the bottom line was, I knew the game.

I love rereading Shakespeare plays and Im constantly finding bits that Ive overlooked or not understood before.