Quotes About Insight

I always like to hang out with whoever's directing and watch what they do. I hang out at Video Village, the area where the directors and the writers and script advisors are.

Whoever has a next-level ear needs to be an Eardrummer.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Anyone who believes that it is possible to educate the will without cultivating the insight that enlivens it is succumbing to illusion. Clear-sightedness on this point is a task for present-day pedagogy, but it can come only from a life-filled understanding of the whole human being.

Though suffering and trauma are not identical, the Buddha's insight into the nature of suffering can provide a powerful mirror for examining the effects of trauma in your life. The Buddha's basic teaching offers guidance for healing our trauma and recovering a sense of wholeness.

Certainly, there are very few wholly original ideas in the world; there are usually people coming to the same conclusions or carrying out experiments, whether publicly or privately.

I love fiction's ability to allow me to inhabit a wholly different life.

What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it.

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

My quality is my intuition. I can't just ignore that, can I? Then I'd be a player of whom there are a thousand of my age.

I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

If there were a being in the world whose eyes could look into other people's hearts, very few men or women would be able to face up to it.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

That's the funny thing about time. It is only in looking back that it's easy to connect the dots. To see exactly why everything needed to happen the way that it did.