Quotes About Insight

It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.

Take the perspective of a journalist or scientist. Really study what's around you. What are people wearing, what do the interiors of buildings look like, what noises do you hear? If you bring your analytical powers to bear, you can make almost anything interesting.

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

I have spent too long being able to manipulate the answers I want from market research to rely upon its findings any more than I do weather forecasts.

Writing/reading is like visiting another person's brain. And a short book or article is like a short stay. You come in, have a coffee, talk about the weather or sports, and then move on.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

I was interested in data mining, which means analyzing large amounts of data, discovering patterns and trends. At the same time, Larry started downloading the Web, which turns out to be the most interesting data you can possibly mine.

The first time I went through YC, it was smaller, and the founders were younger. The advantage of that was that the set of founders who were older than us had really seen the Web 1.0 meltdown. They brought that knowledge to us.

Me being me, I put the numbers from my hospital's website from my tumor sizes into a spreadsheet.

It would be great if companies could just magically know what I'm looking for on their website or what I'm coming to the website for.

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

Using humor as a wedge into different kinds of stories is my go-to. I think anything I do would have some sort of streak of humor in it.

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

You have to know the weeds - to have lived in them - to delegate. I wouldn't want to be a leader who had never lived in the weeds.

But I would not refuse a meeting with Putin. I would like to spend a week with Putin, so that I could better understand him.

And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.

You have to learn where people's funnybone is before you can start to poke fun and work out where that joy lies.

My wife is French, and so I get to see America through her eyes, which informs a lot of little moments. It means I can poke fun at very particular things about us.

There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.

I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and perspectives - each project can involve years of research.

I'm quite investigative. Believe it or not, my mum and dad were in the police, and I sort of like to read into things and stuff.

I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

'Zakhm' has no political agenda. But, it certainly says things as they are.