Quotes About Insight

At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.

I love information. I want to stay current. I don't want to be under-informed. But I'm busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of a situation that I can grasp in a second.

I don't have a directorial overview, which sometimes is very helpful.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

More often than not, wisdom is at the mercy of curiosity.

interviewing that people said he could make a stump confess to saying "timber.

He wished he understood better how the pieces of his life fit together. Would another man with these same pieces see the whole picture?...having certain kinds of smarts didn't necessarily make him smart, he'd come to figure. He seemed to have blind spots. His heart was one.

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.

I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.

The dull mind rises to the truth through material

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

There are few moments of clarity more profound than those that follow the emptying of an overcharged bladder. The world slows down, the focus sharpens, the brain comes back on line. Huge nebulous difficulties prove on close calm examination to be merely cloud giants.

Call it a hunch; and hunches don't just materialise, you pay for them with hard-earned experience. No such thing as a free hunch.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

Noticing that something is broken is an essential prerequisite for coming up with a creative solution to fix

faces tell stories if you learn to read them!

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

Stark raving sane.

Art experts are said to have a "good eye." What they really have is a good brain. It is less that they spot things that others do not; it is that they know where to look;