Quotes About Insight

With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

There used to be a strong belief that if you wanted to know what was really going on in a country, the best thing to do was to go there and ask a taxi driver.

They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

There's always something that you can learn and something you can teach.

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

Our lives teach us who we are.

Some of the guys that can teach you the best never really made it just because they couldn't execute it themselves, but they can tell everybody else the reasons why everybody else made it and show you how. It's just hard to find those people.

I always feel that my films ought to teach me something about life.

Even the mundane task may have something to teach you - especially if it's a task you haven't performed before.

We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

There is no better teacher than life itself.

You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.

Experience is a good teacher.

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Teachers have a million stories, but nobody consults them.

I learned life from some good teachers.

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea.