Quotes About Insight

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Those who suffer profoundly are granted profound wisdom.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

You don't have to sugar coat things for kids. If you make something for them with intelligence they will show that intelligence in ways that will sometimes shock you.

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.

A researcher has to be able to identify key points and suggest intelligent questions.

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.

We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time.

I guess you could say I have grown up, matured. I have seen a lot, and I guess that probably sums it up.

I like to think we're all the sum of our experiences, so no one has my perspective.

Going into my second Summer League, I felt like I had more knowledge. Just being around the game and learning your routines, and just learning from other guys that you're around, you feel like you pick up on a lot of stuff.

I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn't for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure.

Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.