Quotes About Insight

But generally I think I'm a good judge of character - you have to be as a DJ to read the crowds and understand their vibes. You can use that to suss out a lot of people.

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

You live vicariously through your characters.

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

I can bring some of my life experiences as I act, but it may not work vice versa.

I think every actor should direct at least once and vice versa.

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.

Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was writing about or the post-9/11 era that I'm writing about.

I love Victorian novels, the way they capture the nuances of the human condition.

Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.

The thing about comedians is, we're generally pretty smart. So, if we can be smart and funny, that is the victory.

The 'Raining Gold' video naturally took on one of the messages behind the song, which is you should never assume anything about someone or a situation just because it looks a certain way on the surface.

My videos are meant to make people look at themselves at the end of the day. They all have a message.

I used to prepare in advance on how the bowler is going to bowl, whether is he going to bowl an outswinger or an inswinger? I used to watch the videos of the bowler and used to prepare in advance.

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

My journalistic heroes are all the guys like Peter Arnett of Vietnam, and my style in journalism is you got to stand there, and you got to see it with your own eyes.

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.