Quotes About Insight

I've seen a range of children's personalities, so it's easier to write about them without patronising them, I think.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

Imagination is a funny thing - we sometimes need to see something before we can truly picture it.

I've got a funny way of looking at things. It's because I'm dyslexic, and I was diagnosed with ADD when I was younger. And I'm left-handed as well.

You just touch on things. You don't go round the room describing the furniture.

In order to produce the satisfaction of comprehension, there first needs to be the process of comprehension. Furthermore, the overarching idea at hand needs to be something that is actually comprehensible.

It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.

I would have been an essayist in the 18th century. Maybe I'd have had one gag in the piece, but essentially I'd be saying something.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private kind of music.

I always learn from Julio Cesar and I learn more from watching him than from talking to him. I gain a lot of experience when I train with him.

I learn from each experience, and I take it for what it is and gain what I can.

I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think, 'What would I like to spend five years really thinking about? What could I gain from thinking about for five years?'

I think with experience and age, you gain knowledge and wisdom.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

Whenever I've surprised my audience, I've gained something out of it.

I grew as an actress, and I feel I gained a lot, whenever I have worked with any great director in the past.

I always feel for the younger cast members in 'Game of Thrones.' They're really clever and smart.

Whatever understanding I have of filmmaking is because of my stint as an assistant director on 'Gangs of Wasseypur.'

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

Learning is the gateway to adventure.

I always had a lot of confidence in my ability to gauge a situation and people and try to understand them and what they were saying and what their context was.