Quotes About Insight

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar sounds decades older than he is, and it's not necessarily the wear and tear that comes from a rough life; instead, his world-weariness seems to result from years of soul-searching.

Few reporters get to do what Kelly McEvers does in every episode of 'Embedded': go deep into a story and tease out what is really happening.

When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we're discovering, it's been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, 'Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.' And it doesn't matter if it's from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective.

Whether you have a barbershop or you're a local restaurant owner, there's lots of tech for you to understand your business.

Studying technical design and art gave me the ability to see things in 3-D.

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.

I've had a bit of experience at lots and lots of different arenas as it were, some of them completely creative, some of them quite technical. The interesting thing is, is that I found that the technical arenas actually are also very creative or can be very creative.

Today, we are fortunate that the historical novel has reached such extraordinary heights of technical mastery. The ability of society to connect with the past holds out the greatest hope for it being able to embrace the future.

I would say Pep Guardiola's No. 1 quality is that he sees the technical and tactical aspect of a game really fast.

Sometimes a poem appeals to me technically, just because of the way a line feels on my lips. Sometimes it is because it says something I have felt, or sometimes something that I suddenly recognise. Other times it can change the way I see something.

Surgeons are not technicians; they're not mechanics. They're artists. I see patterns where not many other people see patterns. ...I think that's what made me a good surgeon, and now, that's what's making me a good writer.

Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.

Very simple techniques, when you have a lot of data, work incredibly well.

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

Technologies like Ayasdi's exist now to automatically discover information from data without having someone making guesses up front.

All the world's combined knowledge is at our fingertips. But the same technology that makes this possible is robbing us of deeper insight.

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.

I find teenage girls endlessly funny.

I'm hoping I can fill a gap by helping to advise people on acting mechanics - the kinds of things that, looking back, I would have really benefited from as a teenager.