Quotes About Insight

I'd subliminally determined at this point that the only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any measure.

the only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any

It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.

If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.

Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know.

Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.

Some questions change everything.

Maybe if he read enough novels about the problems of fictional people, he might find some clue about how to solve his own.

Roy received my comments with a forced smile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?" Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps the arguing to a minimum," he replied. "No point in trying when I know she's going to win.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

Being a purple van man means I have my own perspective on things.

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.

Show business people aren't vapid.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human imagination.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.

I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.