Quotes About Insight

Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and – side benefit – the skills you develop will give you greater compassion, insight and range with the people you create on the page – or run into off of it.

Furthermore, the world of books, like meat in cans, was somehow richer and more flavorful than the everyday variety. In ordinary life, for example, one saw many people without really knowing them, while in books one even knew what people were thinking and planning.

Such a man became a leader, one of the great men, who guided people in their thoughts and deeds, as a weaver guides his colored threads through the intricacies of the pattern.

Whole worlds exist beneath the surface. And maybe you can't see down there, Michael thought, but there's a part of you that knows.

Ideas are sphincters. Every asshole has one.

our lives have a way of eddying back on themselves, offering us the same view over and over, daring us to get it right just once.

Great fiction tells unknown truths.

That's why people write books and stories, no doubt, to leave some impression behind, to share a sense of the beauty and pain. This

I think there are very few people who have a capacity to see the future. So it can be difficult when you are talking about something where nothing about it exists yet.

Don't overanalyze what you see. I have a felling that you're over-thinking things. Give it some time, and the pieces of this puzzle might come together.

meeting strangers, learning about what's beyond first glance. Discovering everyone has a hidden story, a reason for their behavior.

Discovering everyone has a hidden story, a reason for their behavior.

What does it take for a person to be able to recognize evil as it unfolds? To see with foresight and acuity .

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken by the Sea.

Your hands already know too much.

learning was an act of rediscovery, knowledge a form of remembering.

If I want to understand what moves me, what confuses me, what pains me—everything that makes me react, in short—I have to put it into words.

So that she began to see herself more clearly, as a thin film of dust was wiped from a sheet of glass.

In your company or industry, work every job in that industry. It's the only way of having a complete understanding of your people and your company.

It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.

Part of the way that I work is to observe.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.