Quotes About Insight

My wife is absolutely one of my key advisors. She comes from a background that's very different than mine.

I give my work to my wife first to read. Then, I try to find new people who haven't read my work before, to get a new perspective.

We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

My secret weapon is my wife. She's the best judge. She's a scientist and a natural reader. We've developed a detailed code for how she marks a manuscript, and I think it's what saves me from wild digressions.

The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.

The words that I'm most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that's the same with music, really. If you're doing an album, there's ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times - it's difficult.

I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

I've learned more about directing from five years of television than I could have in ten years of film.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

I tend to read non-fiction.

I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

You can think you know somebody. But when they're trying to punch you in the face, you really know somebody. You learn their tendencies.