Quotes About Insight

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.

The first product of self-knowledge is humility.

I write to discover what I know

Some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there's nothing to see. It's a kind of salvation.

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.

The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it.

I like his eyes, she observed, They don't look like they see what he's looking at but they keep on looking.

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

Do you think, Mr. Motes," she said hoarsely, "that when you're dead, you're blind?" "I hope so," he said after a minute. "Why?" she asked, staring at him. After a while he said, "If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more." The

You found out more when you left where you lived. He had found out already this morning that he had been made by a carpenter named Jesus Christ.

Any discipline can help your writing: logic, mathematics, theology, and of course and particularly drawing. Anything that helps you to see, anything that makes you look.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. The Nature and Aim of Fiction

True genius can get an idea across even to an inferior mind.

He seemed to be a young man but he had a look of composed dissatisfaction as if he understood life thoroughly.

i write because i don't know what i think until i read what i say

Comme l'on serait savant si l'on connaissait bien seulement cinq à six livres. ( How wise one might be if one knew thoroughly only some half of a dozen books

When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say the way God sees events from above?

Tout comme Flaubert, "je suis doué d'une sensibilité absurde, ce qui érafle les autres me déchire.

You know, master classes are essentially extended Q&As. That's how I always approach them. I don't mean to downplay it. It's just that I never fancy myself as someone who is taking a class. 'Master class' insinuates a teacher, and I'm not one.

I think a dream date for me is some kind of fantastic conversation where you end up learning something really wonderful about a person.

But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That's really fantastic!

I found myself doing all these action-adventure movies, and it's been a fantastic experience, and I've learnt a lot.