Quotes About Insight

Anything that opens up people's perceptions a bit is good.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

Our abilities are limited only by our perceptions.

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world.

People don't realize it's not just about being funny, and they don't know how perceptive a comedian needs to be about human nature. You have to really be able to read a situation and peoples' emotions.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.

To be perfectly honest, most fans see a different game to players. I am not being rude when I say that.

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

I learned a lot just watching people perform.

I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it helps me as a director because I know what I like as an actor, and I try to get that to the actors who I'm working with.

I think I would not be who I am if I did not have experience both as an audience and as a performer in those early days of my career. It taught me what entertainment is all about.

You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.

Perhaps the most satisfying thing occurred when Michael Jordan became a team owner and said to me, 'I owe you a lot of apologies. It's a lot harder to run a team than I thought.'

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.

It's not necessary to have read everything about a particular subject in order to get interested in it. The main thing is to sort out what's important and what is peripheral in order to be able to dive in.

Working with a female director has great perks.

Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.

A lunatic lifestyle on the road doesn't permit you to get too hip to stuff as you should.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.