Quotes About Insight

I have a good feeling for the game. I know the game.

Sometimes you're the only one who thinks you have a good idea.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I'm getting there.

I wanted to make 'Nobody Knows,' a kind of summation of the experiences I gained from making my first three films, the good ones as well as the bad ones.

Any experience you have, there are good parts of it and bad parts, and you have to learn from the bad parts and the mistakes that you've made.

I've always read in order to figure out people more, and that includes bad people and good people.

It's great to have a good relationship with the directors and learn about things you do with cameras, and how you direct.

I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.

I'm no dummy. I have a good sense of the business end of this game.

I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

I think cliche is a good thing sometimes.

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

Sometimes it is a good thing to hear what kids have to tell you. Kids just tell the truth.

I'm not saying the U.S. system is poor at all, because I learned a lot from it. There's a lot of great coaches and good things I did there as well.

Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.

Poetry is a mode of consciousness.

Uno sa sempre qual e' la sua decisione prima ancora di averla presa. In realta', lo sa fin dall'inizio. Ecco perche' i consigli non servono a niente.

So, art is saying Stop. It helps us to stop by putting a frame around something and makes us see it in a way we would never have seen it under the normal circumstances of living, as so many of us do, on sort of automatic pilot, going through the world without really seeing much of anything.

The writers who get my personal award are the ones who show exceptional promise of looking at their lives in this world as candidly and searchingly and feelingly as they know how and then of telling the rest of us what they have found there most worth finding. We need the eyes of writers like that to see through. We need the blood of writers like that in our veins.

People are prepared for everything except for the fact that beyond the darkness of their blindness there is a great light. They are prepared to go on breaking their backs plowing the same old field until the cows come home without seeing, until they stub their toes on it, that there is a treasure buried in that field rich enough to buy Texas.

Have you really seen God? he said, placing his hand on the young man's shoulder and fixing him with his protuberant eyes. Believing that the sound he could hear of a thousand voices singing was no longer the wind, Averill said, I am seeing him now.

It's so easy to look and see what we pass through in this world, but we don't. If you're like me, you see so little. You see what you expect to see rather than what's there.

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.