Quotes About Insight

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

Good writing is about telling the truth.

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.

I think a good director is a good listener.

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.

Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen.

A good film is also a documentary

I don't usually read reviews. I usually read the interviews, just because I figure it's a good way to try to do them better if I ever have to do them again.

A good leader needs to know how to follow.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.

The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions.

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

Most good thinking has its origin in fear.

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.