Quotes About Insight

I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.

The film opens up the world beyond Katniss' point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places like the Hunger Games control room and President Snow's rose garden, thereby adding a new dimension to the story.

I consider all drama to be the opportunity to see the world from another person's point of view. That seems to be the point of drama, really. And thereby to encourage understanding and even love.

My father is someone who asks doubts, thereby triggering new thoughts.

Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

They say eyes clear with age.

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.

Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.

The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.

Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand it fully, you cannot stay there: you have to take a more objective view, too.

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.

Novels often thin themselves out to a watery hue - some even start that way - and at times seem to only ride along the surface of things, giving us what we already know, reporting the news that is just news.

There is only a very thin line which separates a genius from the eccentric.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.