Quotes About Insight

I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human.

Products are sold because they solve a problem or fill a need. Understanding problems and needs involves understanding customers and what makes them tick.

The lesson for businesses is you are dealing with real people. Those are your customers, those are your employees, those are your bosses, and the better you understand how real people tick, the more successfully you will be able to accomplish your goals.

I love getting insight into what makes actors tick.

I'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.

It takes time to know what makes an individual player tick.

If we are to develop profound theory to solve the intractable problems in our societally-critical domains... we must learn to crawl into the life of what makes people tick.

What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Jane Austen, because I'd like to know what really made her tick. It's my opinion that she was inhibited by her family and a desire to do the right thing. Away from all that, I believe she'd show new facets and enjoy the adventure.

I feel like, whatever movie I was making, there would always be moments of human intimacy and insight into a little bit of what makes us tick as people.

I've always loved reading diaries and memoirs and just getting a sense of different personalities and what made them tick as individuals.

Doing comedy around the world is a way of finding out how people tick.

There's nothing quite like being able to get into the minds of other people, and figure out how they work, and what makes other people tick. And going against your own grain sometimes, to push yourself into places you wouldn't go emotionally.

I like stories. I like to figure out how history ties to the present.

Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.

A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.

When I'm watching any game, I watch the tight end.

Dhyan traveled from India to China along with the Buddhist monks, where it was referred to as Ch'an. This yoga traveled through the Southeast Asian countries to Japan and became Zen, and found expression as a whole system of direct insight without an emphasis on doctrine. Zen is a spiritual path that has no scriptures, books, rules, or rigid practices; it is an uncharted path.

Sutra literally means thread.

If terrible things have happened to you, you ought to have grown wise. If the worst possible events have befallen you, you should be the wisest of the lot.

Vis - singura REALITATE pe care nimeni nu ne-o poate fura,

standing in customers' shoes and seeing the world from their perspective is better than just relying on their feedback or reaction.

It makes no sense to lack self-knowledge while understanding those around you.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.