Quotes About Insight

In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing, I just let it all out.

I've played real people before, but I never knew them.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

I can tell very early on, reading a script, within six or seven pages, whether I'm looking at real people, and whether I can see and hear real people.

My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is.

Self-knowledge is the foundation of real success.

I think the best research is people you meet and things that they say, rather than second hand accounts of something. I think when you meet someone and talk to them, then you get the real thing and that's what you can use. That's the material you can actually put on the page.

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

It's a huge competitive advantage to see in real time what's happening with your data.

Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.

Obviously, aging has a certain amount of mellowing process because there's certain things you realise you were doing when you were younger that were plain ridiculous, stupid.

When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of.

My life experience has made me realise what's important and what is not.

I usually don't talk for three days after a defeat. Then you have an epiphany and realise it's just a game.

Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.

I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.

The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

I have come to see what the Tour is about, and it has been harder than I imagined. You don't realise what it is like until you actually compete.

My parents had something to say about everything I did. As a kid, I thought they were against me. Now I realise they were mostly right.

As a director, you realise the bigger picture.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.

When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.