Quotes About Insight

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Who has words at the right moment?

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

I think throughout the day; there are always lines or certain words, and I'll just keep notes in my phone. It might just be one or two words, and then that could inspire a whole song, lyrically.

I used to work with autistic children, and they said a lot of funny things to me.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

We know Mark Dominik extremely well. We know the way he approaches things, the way he thinks about things, his work ethic.

There are geniuses, savants; I'm not one of them. I work hard, I see where popular culture's going to move, but I've gotta keep having information pumped into me. I look under every rock.

I don't have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.

I think creative people need to do a bit of, you know, tuning into every radio station - you just do, otherwise you don't know much about other people. You kind of have to learn a bit about yourself so you can work out how we all behave and why we do the things we do.

I use my film-making to work through my deep questions and my deep problems. I think I could watch each film and tell you exactly which part of my psyche I'm trying to work out.

Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.

I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.

I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

We think that we know people from this constellation of points: 'I know that story. I know that girl. I've heard that story a thousand times.' But actually, you never know that story.