Quotes About Insight

A novel is not a rant.

I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

I rap about life in general, particularly my life, unless telling a story.

We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.

I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

I prefer rappers who have something intelligent to say.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.

Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life.

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

I just realized at a certain point that no matter how much writing I did, I'm still a gym rat for comedy clubs.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Understanding the psychology of changing norms starts from a simple insight: although we may wish to be perfectly rational and impartial, bias is an inescapable part of what it means to be human.

I'm excited to bring a dose of moderate, rational conservatism to 'The Cycle.'

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.

I didn't really know what I was looking at when I first came across Man Ray's 'Dust Breeding,' his photograph of a work by Marcel Duchamp called 'Large Glass.' It looked like an aerial photograph or a view through a microscope.

An effective leader is able to reach people in their natural environment and extract their experiences and knowledge about the issues that impact them.

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.