Quotes About Insight

No matter the natural disaster I've covered, whether it's a wildfire or flood, I always come back with a much greater perspective.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

William Regal once told us he people-watched when he was in the ring. He would see things that people would do. And if they annoyed him, chances are they would annoy someone else. A lot of times I'll just people watch when I'm traveling or at the airport or living everyday life.

I found a book facing out that I'd always meant to read: William Shirer's 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.' About a third of the way through, I suddenly, finally caught up to the fact that Shirer had been there in Berlin, from 1934 on, and was finally kicked out when the U.S. entered the war.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

What I've seen, and the reactions from 'The Final Quarter' and 'The Australian Dream', is that a lot more people are more willing to share their stories around racism.

Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them.

Hey, China - a little insight into how we American women think: We're damn smart and we will willingly respond with emotion when presented with a set of facts.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

The more you see, the more you know, the more you feel like you can help others and the more you feel like you can help the team win.

I don't drive by the seat of my pants and happen to win races. I work very hard to interpret the data and drive a certain way. My engineers have confidence in me, and more often than not, when I tell them what I need or what I am feeling with the car, it's right.

For me, whether we win or lose, every match is giving me a lot of information about how to improve.

Win or lose, I always learn something.

I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do!

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.