Quotes About Insight

It's stupid to have a simple-minded view.

I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little grasp they have of what people are really feeling in a country. Especially CIA guys. Maybe they're just really good at playing stupid, but I don't think so.

I cannot abide stupidity, in myself or in others.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

Stupidity took me pretty far.

I'm even handed. I just point out the stupidity we all do.

The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.

I find inspiration in what artists and regular people on the street wear, but I'm also very influenced by what I like to wear since I style myself.

I think the biggest thing I learned was the different types of leadership styles and the ways of pushing peoples' butts, because they're all different.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

You can understand so much about how consumers perceive a brand by analyzing their spontaneous, subconscious responses.

I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.

I learned over the years to trust that the subconscious is going to provide guidance.

Whatever we take from a film - personal, public, private, subconscious - a list can only contain moments that are often a key to the recognition of something more complex.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Every subject you think you know, I'll dissect it and show you the truth.

When dealing with a subject who is dead, you have this feeling of being God. You know who they're going to marry, when they're going to die. It's strange to feel so omniscient.

Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.