Quotes About Insight

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.

I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react.

I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.

Seeing how people react to a situation, you can tell a lot.

When you know someone for four-five years, you tend to know everything about the person. You tend to know when the other person is reacting to a certain situation, how the other person would react in a situation.

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has to be countered with knowledge and understanding.

I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.

After a certain point I know my players so well, I can anticipate their reactions.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

Read in order to live.

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

We are not only what we read. We are how we read.

I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

Rather big part of my time is to read scientific journals and to discover what others are doing.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.