Quotes About Insight

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.

So rather than someone coming to my stu- dio and saying, like, "Thank you for your time. I'll see you later," and me not knowing why they don't like my work, I understand now why they don't like it.

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

Usually I don't get specific advice from certain actors or actresses I work with.

I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

You have to bring books to explain your work.

It takes me a long time to understand my work myself, so I name them in the order that they're created.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

The secret to global investing is gaining an insight into the hopes and desires of the people who live and work in the countries you invest in.

For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.

There is a wealth of knowledge to be understood from others' work, don't get me wrong, and when I do stumble upon others' work, it's not lost on me.

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

In fact, sometimes when I look at something my memory does work. I remember the panel where Alex Toth told me, "Mike, if you really don't understand all that, you don't need to put it on there."