Quotes About Insight

Eventually, when I started studying Egyptology, I realized that seeing with my naked eyes alone wasn't enough. Because all of the sudden, in Egypt, my beach had grown from a tiny beach in Maine to one eight hundred miles long, next to the Nile.

I want to talk to the audience. This is what I've been doing in my work in French forever - talking about small things becoming big problems. I notice all the details, all the tiny little things.

I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.

If I am at home I'll put 'Tipping Point' on and will always learn something from it.

I'm a big Alex Cora fan, as far as aggressiveness, the things that he sees like pitch tipping. His eyes are really good.

I don't have dating tips.

No one in the Indian team gave me tips, but I should be mature enough to grasp little things by watching them train and play.

I am more than glad to take tips from experienced actors.

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

Often, it's the little things, like the title of a song, that can make a huge difference in its success.

When I was told that I was doing a movie called 'Lola Rennt,' I was like, 'What?' I didn't get it, or the title. I started reading the script, and I still couldn't fathom that it was about a person named Lola running. Before my agent explained it to me, I couldn't even make any sense out of it.

A bookstore has thousands of titles to sell. You need to be the guy the store attendant recommends to the reader.

To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.

To be honest, I have never thought about the intricacies of a script.

To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting classes my whole life, but they never taught me anything about acting. They just taught me about myself.

To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.

You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.

To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.

If there's a responsibility, it's just to be honest in what I've experienced and to put it in my work.

I really love playing a character that's a little younger than me, to be honest. Because even if it's just three years, I can bring perspective into it.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.