Quotes About Insight

I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.

I've been lucky to be surrounded by some good hockey minds.

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

My songs are based on my keen observation. I have picked these situations from my surrounding and have presented a real situation about the youth and their mindset.

I try to use and, furthermore, strive to focus on the actual facts surrounding and impacting any issue.

I got a great imagination, and I pay close attention to my surroundings and I'm very observant.

I try to be, like, hella sensitive to my surroundings.

I think that place is a huge part of pretty much any musician's work, in how one responds to an environment, whether it be your actual surroundings or the more figurative place we're all living in.

There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot.

The job of any artiste is to open the eyes of the public to their surroundings and make them aware of it.

I like language, words. And I think the survival skills I've developed over the years have added a lot to my perspective.

Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.

I've always worked with my partner, my husband, Cameron, since 'Raw Like Sushi,' and in a way, I feel very free with what I do, but he also has an amazing insight in having intuitions that tend to be right a lot of the time, about where we should go next.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Living the life I have lived - being raised by deaf parents, assimilating to a different culture, and the challenges I have faced over time - has given me insight to the fact that each person has their own complex, intricate story, and it's rarely what I suspect it is. We must have compassion and grace for each other. We must.

I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard.

The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

I worked in casting for about five years before I became a director, and that taught me a huge amount because you never actually will see the character walk through the door - and if you do, then you have to be slightly suspicious of that.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

The way things were done in San Antonio gave me a great 19-year look into how you can have sustained success.

Traditionally, sport has looked down at number crunchers, but the reality is that they give sport the financial sustenance it needs.

If you state the obvious long enough, other people will pick up on what you're talking about and examine it. And usually they'll swallow it.

I've spoken to people who I swear can tell the future.