Quotes About Insight

For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.

I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give you permission to look at something.

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles - for you to get on parity with what women's representations of men are.

There are so many funny people and so many talented people, but the one thing nobody else has is my take on the world. So, when I'm developing my show, that's going to be the focus.

The one thing that's always very safe to say with 'Arrow' is never make assumptions.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.

The problem with mental illness, as opposed to physical illness, is that it involves wrong thinking or impaired insight. You're not thinking correctly.

The power that you have as a storyteller is to be able to tell stories that are at once entertaining but also never lose sight of what's going on in the real world.

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.

One of my favorite movie characters is Mother Sister from Spike Lee's 'Do The Right Thing.' It is such a beautiful name, and she is such a beautiful character, Mother Sister, the all-seeing eye over the block.

One of the important things as a captain or coach is knowing what's going on around you, and knowing the right thing to say at the right time.

I have two little black boys. And a film like 'Do the Right Thing' can help illuminate the times for them with great storytelling.

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

The secret of my success is that I deeply respect and learn from my peers and customers.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.

My family was amazing; they exposed me to the world of show business, and, boy, it was the '70s and I got to spend a lot of time backstage at theaters and see the inner workings of how this entertainment industry is really put together.

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.