Quotes About Insight

As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.

Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don't know and don't want to know. Either be better informed, or don't do it.

The whole character of Super Dave is a takeoff on people who pontificate. So one thing I never want to do is pontificate why this works, why this is funny. I have no idea what the appeal is. All we are trying to do is make people have a good time and laugh.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.

Science fiction, in its purest form, for me, it works the best when it's being used as metaphor to look at something from a one-step-removed process, to give a little objectivity and insight into something that, if you were applying it on the face of it, we'd all be too close to.

I feel my advantage of coming from a film family is - having seen fame up close, having seen the industry so close and how it works, I was not enamored by fame.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.

When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Those who rule data will rule the entire world.

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.