Quotes About Insight

The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.

I don't have much foresight, and I think that's an asset for an actor.

Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing.

It often seems that, for whatever strange reasons, comedians, in addition to their formal performances, have more comic experiences in real life than other people do.

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

Because I'm a former critic, I view criticism differently than most do. I can take criticism, but if you're going to eviscerate us, be specific.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.

Writing is not my forte, but I am good at visualising.

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn't understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground.

Eureka! - I have found it!

There are fragments of me in all my characters.

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.

To be frank, I have always been fascinated about what's happening behind the screen.

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

Especially when I first really started to work with Kenneth and Franklin, who had been in space already. And so, they were able to talk about space and tell me a few things about how things would really happen.

It's not that I'm apolitical... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add.

Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh.

There are things you can learn about certain players while watching them in action in a friendly.