Quotes About Insight

Stand-up comedians know how to walk into a room, even if you're not performing, just read the temperature of a room, and can easily sort of tell what's going on or what people are sort of feeling in the room, and it allows you to sort of approach people.

It came to me then in a flash that obviously the temperature of the water was responsible for the nystagmus.

Your number one job as a comedian is to be aware. You're supposed to understand the temperature in the room more than anyone on the planet - that's the whole craft of comedy.

I've played a lot of football in my life. I know the tempo and speed of the game.

A single idea / the sudden flash of a thought / may be worth a million dollars.

Such work as is overtly political has usually been the result of neither experience nor insight, those essentials to any true creation, but rather of the frigid projection on to unsuitable material of opinions learnt in the abstract, ideologies accepted on trust.

There was nothing more beautiful in the world than the sight of a teacher getting upset.

Books that have been owned by someone for many years for a specific purpose carry not just memories, (that is obvious), they also reveal their owner's true values; for the books we own may indicate something about us very different from what we think.

A smart man learns from his

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Now, as an adult with that healthy dose of perspective we call experience, I realize my mother was right, as she was so often when it came to my life.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.

consensus was that Wright didn't see as much as the camera lens;

glanced at the

It's like my dad used to say. If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit." "That's

Arrogance leads to ignorance, because it colors one's perception.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.   Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A purpose, I have learned, is rarely found, but revealed. Only when I do not search does the purpose become clear.

Only when I do not search does the purpose become clear.

Knowledge was gained by association before it was understood by explanation.

La gente siempre me busca para que interprete sus sueños nocturnos. Si interpretasen también sus sueños de vigilia habría menos confusión en sus sueños nocturnos y serían capaces de entenderlos.

La única lección que nos enseña la historia es que nunca aprendemos de ella.1

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.