Quotes About Insight

Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.

I write a diary every day.

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

There are a lot of very good New York novels, but there's no single all-encompassing novel, the way you could look at any number of Dickens books and say we know London as a result of that.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

Different characters help you grow in cinema.

There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

The best part of my carreer is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone.

I think I've got a good feel. A feel for... being able to walk with different people. Or for being able to look at people and think, 'Yeah, I might know what they want to wear.'

You're really looking for the truth of what the piece is about. And that's going to be different for different people.

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are going through in life, I try to understand their story.

After all the work I've done, I feel like I'm something of an emotion-smith. We have to tap into places on a daily basis that usually people only go in a rare occasion.

I don't think we're all going to be mediums but I do think we all have a sixth sense in that we have an intuition. I think our intuition is something that we all have the ability to tap into and we often regret when we don't follow it.

Funny and sad are two sides of the same coin. I think that most comedians are able to tap into deep subject matter.

Some people have this crazy talent that makes you tap into a human side as well, even with all their fame.

As a medium reading people in the public eye it really is my job to read information from my clients that isn't out there publicly and really tap into those private details.

I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.

Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.

If you operate under the premise that everybody already has some experiences that could be sources of empathy for them, I wonder if there's some process of coaxing people into tapping into that knowledge.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.