Quotes About Insight

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

Among both individuals with high-functioning autism or Asperger and their parents, many are superfast at spotting details. You hardly have time to get the experimental materials out on the table before they've spotted the target.

The tarot is sacred.

The thing about tarot - maybe this to me is the difference between it and working with a psychic - to me it's clarifying the things that you already know. I don't feel like any tarot reading I've done or received was particularly surprising. They always speak to things that you kind of felt already.

You don't go to tarot readers or psychics when everything's going well. It's always evidence of rock-bottom.

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing questions.

Reality is an acquired taste.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

I love working with directors who have good taste. It's incredible when a director can say something and things open up for you. I went to The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and some of my best experiences on sets have been working with other alums.

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

Personally, I do the best work with people I'm closest with. I know what their tastes are, and they are similar to mine. That close personal relationship is what delivers the best work.

When I look at someone's face, there's something in my brain that just clicks - that breaks down their face into the elements that go into a caricature. It might be like the way a chef tastes a dish and can break down into elements what went into it.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

Some of the things I'm most proud of, it isn't because I think it's my best work; it's because of something that it's taught me.

I have a daughter who has taught me a lot along the way.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.