Quotes About Insight

I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.

I learned analytics. It's a point of reference, of information. It has to be a factor in decision making.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.

Watch people and how they handle other people. You have to stay open and keep your eyes open to them.

I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

I think people are better for having learned, even if they aren't happier.

Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.

With 'Broken Harbour,' a third of the way through, I worked it out and had to go back and bloody rewrite.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.

Sometimes I do have to find out things the hard way.

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

Comedy writing is the hardest, and yet there's so much that's relatable in it.

When we think of misdirection, we think of something as looking off to the side when, actually, the things right in front of us are often the hardest to see: the things that you look at every day that you're blinded to.

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School.

Rolodex of Hate' is basically how I ended up being so hateful. It's a look inside.