Quotes About Insight

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

Playing me in different positions helped me to get in the head of the others players: to know what they're thinking, where and how they are going to move.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

The problem is that in Ireland everybody thinks you have to have a 'take' on something. But if you have a 'take' on something then that's a spoof.

I like people who are minimalist with their words. Jack Nicholson thinks a lot then says something, and it's always spot on. Nelson Mandela is the same.

If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.

It's what the reader thinks that counts.

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.

Because of the fact that we grew up in a Third World country, we see how things are from the outside point of view.

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

As a professional journalist, I've been interviewing people for almost thirty years. And the one thing I've learned from all those interviews is that I am always going to be surprised.

You hear women talk about it all the time, like when you turn thirty, 'That's when it all came together for me, girl.' Honestly, that's what I feel.

To be very objective, I am here in this field for thirty five years, and I always knew that Shahid has an incredible capability as an actor.

I had a brilliant relationship with Thomas Tuchel. We spoke a lot, not only on the surface, but really deep about football and our work.

Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.