Quotes About Insight

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

I know nothing of life except through the cinema.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Bob Harras' personal and creative integrity is respected and renowned throughout the comic book industry. As an editor, he provides invaluable insight into storytelling and character.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely.

You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.

I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

Songs come to me and I hear them. At least in part, they are very complete; I hear the whole chorus, including the drum pattern, the base, the countermelody, the basic harmonic structure and the main thrust of the lyric.

There is no way to keep your thumb on the pulse unless you have your thumb on the pulse, and I think we have it.

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.

I am not a pundit or a psephologist and thus not in the business of calling elections.

Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

I'm a problem solver. I love people. The more complicated they are, the more I get into them, and I just want to understand what makes them tick.

There are certain people you listen to who might be a tick better than someone else.

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

I think you have to see the high highs and the low lows to get to the core of what makes us tick as people.

Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

When you study a character, when you're making a film, you want to understand the character: like, what makes them tick?