Quotes About Insight

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

I've got injured in one World Cup, been to a Euros and another World Cup, so I've been there, seen it, and had a taste of it.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

As a bowler you need to keep an eye on what the batsman is trying to do till the last moment.

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

You never know somebody till you get in the room with them.

I don't think you've ever coached till you've coached an Asian team.

I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important.

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.

The roles that have come into my life have taught me - and in that time period maybe I didn't even know it, but whatever came up or whatever it is that you have to express at that time, has benefitted me in a particular way.

After becoming Miss World, I now have some idea of what goes on behind the camera, and that filmmaking is a tedious and time-consuming process.

We knew in our gut that History needed to be more than a timeline.

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

I think a lot of times, the historical piece is often a way to comment on the present.

Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.