Quotes About Insight

There is a time in science when it's too early to attack a problem. The stuff has to bubble a bit more and you have to be able to have the foundation on which to stand.

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

To give you an idea how well I was doing at the time I quit, I was the only one who knew I quit.

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.

Well, we'll know better next time.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

You only know that you're smart because you're around dumb people from time to time!

Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it.

I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up writing about myself, which was incredibly annoying and self-involved.

The next time you're caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping.

Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs.

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.

And sometimes it takes a kid to show adults the truth.

Yet without the darkness," said Palin suddenly, "we would never be aware that the stars exist.

The way out of a trap is to know the way the trap is built. Only then will it cease being a trap.

Écrire toute sa vie, ça apprend à écrire. Ça ne sauve de rien.

And I knew it. That's the worst part: I knew it.

I can see it's all there. All there, but nothing yet done. I can see it in the eyes, all there already in the eyes.

Elle qui se ne voit pas, on la voit ainsi, dans les autres.