Quotes About Insight

Everything is educational.

It can be an educational thing to play your songs to people because you see where you've gone right and where you've gone wrong.

I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.

For all its deranging effects, I am always grateful to Twitter for the interesting ideas it surfaces.

I love talking with elderly people.

I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.

Much of the email we use today is based on what I foresaw in 1978.

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

Emerging actors know there's a whole lot to learn each time they are spending with someone who's done a lot.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

You can't express emotion without giving information.

My school of thought with going into a character is that you have to understand where they come from, and you have to empathize with them.

If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them.

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

We have to change the educational curricula and put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing and looking is.

It's so empowering to know the truth and to really understand something.

I think it's very important to grow as a person from the experiences you encounter in life.

At the end of the day, you got to learn from people that been through what you been through; they help you learn from your mistakes.

Sometimes, actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member, you can read the actor.

As far as comedy goes, I'm endlessly inspired by Jo Firestone.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

I usually do watch what I've done because I think it's important. I think you can learn from it and see what you thought you were doing and what ends up on the screen.

I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.