Quotes About Insight

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first.

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.

A man will never know a woman until he knows her work.

I'm sure. But it doesn't work with me. for one thing, you won't look me in the eye. As for the other...I don't know. I can just tell.

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

I measure the success of my work by the way I feel about a film before anyone else has seen it. I think I can trust myself to know when the work is good and deep and interesting and when it isn't.

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.

It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I've learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.

Obviously, from the experience you get from making videos, you understand where the camera is and how some of the actual technicalities work and so on and so forth.

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before.

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner.