Quotes About Insight

We focus so much on what the five senses tell us, and on what we want, and on how to use our will to create what we want, that we forget there is another side to our nature. This

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

Unaccustomed as I was to gracious dining, I realized in a flash that this wasn't it.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality

Designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought. Self-expression is never an issue, for, wittingly or unwittingly, all stories, honest and dishonest, wise and foolish, faithfully mirror their maker, exposing his humanity … or lack of it.

Fact, no matter how minutely observed, is truth with a small "t." Big "T" Truth is located behind, beyond, inside, below the surface of things, holding reality together or tearing it apart, and cannot be directly observed.

Second, once inside this alien world, we find ourselves. Deep within these characters and their conflicts we discover our own humanity.

Superficial knowledge leads to a bland, monotonous telling. With authorial knowledge we can prepare a feast of pleasures. Or at the very least, add humor.

For most writers, the knowledge they gain from reading and study equals or outweighs experience, especially if that experience goes unexamined.

First we must dig deeply into life to uncover new insights, new refinements of value and meaning, then create a story vehicle that expresses our interpretation to an increasingly agnostic world.

Designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart.

live in a fictional reality that illuminates our daily reality.

La escena no trata de lo que parece tratar en la escena. Trata de otra cosa.

learn something, and grow wiser.

Now that I am older and hopefully wiser, I more fully appreciate

the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth.

they can't see the opportunity staring them in the face.

Most people have an opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it.

I could see the light was going on in his head.

Seeing what is not effective is effective for understanding what is effective.

If you're lucky you live long enough to see the bad results of your good ideas.