Quotes About Insight

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.

My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is that it takes you places you wouldn't ordinarily go, and you don't enter as a tourist, you really enter the life of the place.

The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.

To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

The greatest truths in life are the ones your fellow queens are willing to tell you.

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

Time discovers truth.

You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.

That's just part of the blessing of being an actor: you get to learn so many things about life.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.

A word in season is most precious.

I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.

My outlook on life is so much clearer.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to see some facts and understand them more easily than others.

from the Acknowledgments page] ...and while comments are very welcome, I would suggest it is a waste of your precious time.