Quotes About Insight

Messi is awesome. His creative ability is extraordinary, outside of normal patterns. He manages to see what others don't.

I played at the highest level, so I know what kind of things go through a player's mind and how he might behave, what patterns will crop up in the day-to-day routine.

Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

I'm not deceived by people, because I don't pay attention to people.

I pay attention to the things that nobody else is looking at.

History lets you know exactly where you are today. And if you pay attention to it, it gives you a broad perspective of everyone. You can relate it to pretty much any time.

If you're paying attention and you've been a good listener, you learn every day.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.

I've tried to be open to what's going on and paying close attention, not letting things that inspire me to pass me by.

You learn the most by listening and so, to me, always just listening, always just paying attention and finding out what it is that people see in somebody like them. You find those things, and you try to figure out how to fit them into who you are, who you want to be, and how you want to lead.

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

My older son, when things were at the peak of attention, comes up to me and says: 'Mom, I know people are saying you're doing stuff that's cool. But I listened, and all you did was talk. It was pretty boring.' Thanks for that.

In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

Trust your instinct. And if you can't tell what your instinct is telling you, learn how to peel back the noise in your life that is keeping you from hearing it.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?'

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody...' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.

I can see when people's minds are wrong. You can see when a footballer's going to miss a penalty.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.