Quotes About Insight

We spend time with a painting to try to understand it, but how much time we spend with a painting is driven by how much we understand of it.

Let me let you in on a little secret," he writes. "If you are hearing about something old, it is almost certainly good. Why? Because nobody wants to talk about shitty old stuff, but lots of people still talk about shitty new stuff, because they are still trying to figure out if it is shitty or not. The past wasn't better, we just forgot about all the shitty shit.

Knowing where to look—and remembering what you have seen—is a hallmark of experience and expertise.

Take the most notes on the first day. That's when you see the most.

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.

I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train...

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Consumers accessing the newly available books often discovered they were farsighted and needed glasses.

Everyone's personality is a manifestation of their combined past experiences. If you are able to observe and interpret someone's behavior, you will eventually be able to predict that person's behavior as well.

Just because you saw one piece of the puzzle doesn't mean you see the whole picture.

Just remember that the masses are asses and you'll be just fine.

Sometimes I'm so clever that I don't understand a single word of what I'm saying.

You have the right answer . . . the question is wrong.

Czech: ?ekni mi, co ?teš, a já ti ?eknu, kdo jsi. English: Tell me what you read, and I'll tell you who you are. First president of Czechoslovakia.

While this aspect of self-awareness is no doubt useful, a more consequential side concerns understanding how you affect others and, in turn, what others think of you. As the poet Maya Angelou noted, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them." In that sense, self-awareness is really about other-awareness, and people with higher EQs are better able to understand how their actions affect and are perceived by others.

You leave more for your imagination if your eyes are out of focus

Reading is important because, if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

The new philosophy proceeds from the world, the book of God.

'Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.

O homem que tem uma experiência nunca ficará à mercê daquele que só tem argumentos.