Quotes About Insight

Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.

Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.

I knew there was something about 'Sun Medallion,' in particular, because I just had to record it the second I wrote it.

I've directed 'Raisin in the Sun' five times. You keep discovering things. You keep on seeing things in the script that you never saw before. That's what great pieces of art do.

It's difficult for my mum because she doesn't know half of the things that happened. She might think the sun shines out of me. That's the case with a lot of parents and their children - they don't really know what goes on when they leave the house.

It's kind of strange to hear your songs sung back to you! You get a big insight into what people connect to, what's moving to people or what songs people are really into.

Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

Sometimes it takes me six months before I find out what a line means, even if the writing is superficial... To do a play right, really, I'd like to take two years of rehearsal. You study the character by living with him.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

If your attention is on superfluous aspects that are not part of the story, then you can't be concentrating on the human realities of the piece.

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things.

I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of. Everything passes into it now. I don't know what happens there.

it is obvious that most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer.

Just be sure that you observe carefully what wells up within you and place that above everything that you notice around you.

In the depths everything becomes law.

For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people get to know only one corner of their room, a window seat, a strip of floor which they pace up and down.

Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they are yours.

We don't know the contour of feeling; we only know what molds it from without.

O stars, Isn't it from you that the lover's desire for the face Of his beloved arises? Doesn't his secret insight Into her pure features come from the pure constellations?

I'm learning how to see. I don't know what the reason is, but everything enters into me more deeply and no longer stops at the point where it used to come to an end. I have an inner self that I knew nothing about. Now everything goes into it. I don't know what happens there.