Quotes About Insight

A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't. And in so doing, it is broadly applicable.

In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

It's funny to say its fun to explore someone's really rough time, but it is. It's exciting.

I think it's a bit short-sighted to play any character and not explore, in some respects, the way they act when things get really bad.

Writing gives me the license to go, explore, and learn about the world.

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.

The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me.

I know Michael Chandler. I know his potential. He's very explosive.

Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together.

I think anyone can write about anything that they have knowledge of and exposure to.

I don't think Beethoven expresses religious truth. He expresses a human truth.

I have an expression I use as I've gone around the world through my career: 'You never tell another man or woman what's in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.'

If we extend our senses, then, consequently, we will extend our knowledge. It's really very basic.

My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.

To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write.

When you write a show, every character is you to some extent.

I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.

Even now that I only have one eye, maybe I see more things than before. My life was completely against the clock, a fight against the stopwatch.

Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes.